Energy Design Resources “offers a valuable palette of energy design tools and resources that help make it easier for architects, engineers, lighting designers, and developers to design and build energy-efficient commercial and industrial buildings in California.” To that end, they sponsored a two day architectural design competition open to California college students, and the winning UCSB and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo...
Read MoreUCSB Geography staff held their Christmas party at “Ye Cold Spring Tavern” last Friday, and, yes, pink elephants were there. No, not too much alcohol was involved (Dylan and Patricia’s bottles of Syrah and Bill’s pints of porter excepted), but the pink elephants were very real, nonetheless. Read on! In case you don’t know, a “pink elephant party” is a variation on a gift exchange of...
Read MoreSanta Rosa Island, home to the world’s most complete pygmy mammoth remains, the oldest human skeleton in North America, and the rarest pine tree species in the United States, has a fascinating history of human occupation. It was inhabited by the first peoples who entered the American continent during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period, it was home to the Chumash Indians for over 10,000 years, and Juan...
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