Lloyd Alter
Lloyd Alter is managing editor of TreeHugger and editor of the Design section. He has been an architect, developer, inventor and prefab promoter. He now writes for green websites TreeHugger and Planet Green, and teaches sustainable design at Ryerson University School of Interior Design.
In the course of his work developing small residential units and prefabs, Lloyd became convinced that we just use too much of everything- too much space, too much land, too much food, too much fuel, too much money, and that the key to sustainability is to simply use less. And, the key to happily using less is to design things better.
Concerns about uncontrolled demolition and development led to a passion for historic buildings and neighbourhoods, so Lloyd got involved in the local preservation movement and served as President of theArchitectural Conservancy of Ontario from 2009 to 2011.
Latest Stories from Lloyd Alter - Page 12
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A picture is worth: Life in the Toronto bike lanes
You would think that a week after the snow storm, the bike lanes might be working again. You would be wrong.
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Architectural Valentines: Love means never having to say you’re Saarinen
They are all over the internet today; here are some that relate to buildings we have shown on TreeHugger
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A vision of the urban building of the future
Giant engineering firm Arup once again looks at they way we might build in the future, and it's alive.
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Which are greener, food trucks or sit-down restaurants?
Food trucks are a phenomenon right now, but are they good for the environment? It's complicated.
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Be my green Valentine
Where we recycle and repurpose the best of our Valentine's Day posts from the past.
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This Valentine's Day, buy slave-free chocolate
73% of chocolate comes from Africa, and much of it is worked by children, virtually in a state of slavery
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Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center saved
They won't be demolishing it to build a cutesy pastiche after all
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Softkill Design joins race to build the first 3D printed house
The clever design is built up of smaller pieces clicked together on site in a day. But will it keep the rain out?
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New more efficient US homes eat up as much energy as they did a decade ago, because they are 30% larger
The rebound effect, or Jevons' Paradox, once again rears its ugly head and eats up all of our energy savings.
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Are Main Streets a thing of the past, or are they just getting ready for their closeup?
Kaid Benfield at the NRDC suggests that they are artifacts or tourist attractions; In fact they may well be the new economy
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From rotary to Siri: How the phone numbering system came and went
The fascinating story of how we got the phone numbers we have, and how it may soon be no more.
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Are building-integrated wind turbines still "folly"?
Are they there to generate electricity or to give a superficial green cred to a building? Alex Wilson revisits the question.
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Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison
We round up some of our best posts about the inventor.
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Floor to ceiling glass is not green.
It's time to stop pretending that you can build a building this way and call it green; Even the best glass is worse than a crappy wall.
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Pope Benedict quits; Was advocate of a cleaner, greener lifestyle
When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.
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Bercy Chen completes high-tech update of traditional pit house
Taking a traditional native American design and updating it for the 21st Century
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Transformer desk turns into bedroom
Athanasia Leivaditou designs the perfect desk for all-nighters, described as 1.6 Square Meter of Life
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Tired Title, Boffo Finish in "It's Not Easy Being Green"
Who says the New York Times is ignoring climate and the environment? David Leonhardt writes about the importance of doing something about climate, in a political climate that makes it tough.
