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 5
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Can Brutalism make you brutal? Architecture critic James Russell thinks it might
The Bloomberg critic looks at the work of Paul Rudolph and wonders if it made Dzhokar Tsarnaev do it.
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How did we end up with drywall?
Perhaps it is time to reconsider the ubiquitous interior finish; It is not the greenest way to go.
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This is Earth Day: Celebrating opening of a LEED Certified Drive-thru coffee shop
Because it's got a bike rack and low VOC paints!
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10 tips to make every day Earth Day
We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.
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Don't malign the millenials; The kids are alright
An Earth Day survey is being used to attack millenials as green slackers and pat the boomers on the back. That's not what the data say.
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Nature reserves in UK may be fair game for developers, if they "offset" the damage on less valuable real estate
There's lots of less valuable land farther away from cities. Why protect it when you can offset it?
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Ask the experts on Earth Day: What ever happened to.....
We look at how the issues have changed over the years, why the issues that drove the green movement don't anymore
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The top ten posts of the week on TreeHugger
From confused koalas to squishy octopuses to trouble beavers to giant snails to drowning pangolins, the animals rule
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Forget the green gizmos and bamboo floors; Green building is all about moderation
Martin Holladay gets down to the essentials: Size, siting, sun and sealing
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Wretched Excess Dept: Castor Design's Marble with Fluorescent Tube
"At first glance, Marble with Fluorescent Tube's monolithic 2,500 pound base appears to be at odds with the banality of the bulb which sits on top of it."
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Nice Shades: BIQ Building is powered by algae
This truly is a green building, although I don't think an accountant would love these green eyeshades.
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Coffee pod greenwashing comes to America with Illy and Terracycle
It's a new low in phoney feel-good environmentalism as one-shot plastic pods are shipped around the country and downcycled.
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Columnar kitchen from Clei has a tiny footprint
If you don't have the room to go out, you can always go up, as Massimo Facchinetti does with this amazing kitchen.
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Visions of a future where cities are all in one building
The agenda 21 conspiracy theorists deride it as "pack'em and stack'em" housing but it's an interesting idea.
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Sandwichbike finally rolls out to market
We've been admiring the flatpack design since 2006 and can finally get one.
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Toronto's Bixi Bike system is in trouble; will New York's Citibike suffer from the same problems?
New York looks like it is going big and backed by big bucks, which is exactly what it needs to survive.
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Spectacular stair dominates house, serves many functions
A stair is more than just vertical transportation; in this case, it is the center of attention
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A town without wifi or cellphones is attracting the electrosensitive
It is a sensitive issue that is not taken seriously in America. Does Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity exist?
