I saw a wall space that was nicely framed and at the end of a public hallway. It seemed like a great place for a bulletin board. If I build one and put it there, I think community might be strengthened.

This is course work for Ellie Rubin's course on ambition, through Stanford Continuing Education. My wife and I thought we could each use a class that would give us an opportunity to explore our next step. I am focusing on actualizing some business ideas I have been holding on to for almost a decade. I am gathering speed in my approach to actualizing them and I need break through.

I believe our energy future will involve building our infrastructure to account for and use efficiently, daily solar energy for lighting, heating, cooling, and ventilation; using passive solar principles. To transition our society to build with passive solar principles, I is neccessary to link that market to the education of our youth, today. I am a teacher candidate of the Industrial Arts, but I am developing an entire CTE model while working with the building trades/wood working/capentry standards. I am looking for an internship in a middle school shop where I can teach our youth the skills they will need to design, build and function in a sustainable urban infrastructure.

This is a concept drawing(to be drawn) for re-configuring Remmington drive in Sunnyvale, ca. (see public poll for four other options)
I live on Plum Ave, which terminates into Remmington. For years I have watched drivers exceeding 25MPH on our street on their way to or from Remmington, where the speed limit is 35MPH. It seems the general public sees Plum as an extension of Remington. I personally would like to see redevelopment that slows down traffic, especially if the plan has to include bikes and pedestrians.
The round-a-bout design is used extensively around the world, especially in Europe. As applied to Remmington I envision the use of round-a-bouts as pedestrian crossings and a meeting space for neighborhood composting operations. The streets are sufficiently wide to accomodate two lanes of traffic, and a one lane, one way, round-a-bout. This intersection design demands slower speeds and that drivers are alert and scanning the whole public scape.

In hard times, humans have persevered. Plumbob is a part of the wave of sustainability moving all over the world right now. Plumbob is taking aim at the inefficiencies of how we build our living, working, and learning structures by re-discovering passive solar principles and re-aligning community to live by the Sun as an energy foundation. Our society is hanging on the question; "What will we leave the next generation?"