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Postcards from Des Moines: A Trip To RAYGUN

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 admin 0 Comments clothing, coastal chauvinism, des moines, entrepreneurship, midwest, midwestern, panmidwestern, raygun, startup, t-shirt, t-shirts

Returning from Minneapolis and on a roundabout, triangular route to Dubuque, I stopped into RAYGUN, the Midwest’s favorite t-shirt shop,

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Environment

Land Hurricanes, Resilient Design, And Other Stuff To Think About

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate resilience, construction, derecho, extreme weather, grinnell, ICF, iowa, midwest, panelized construction, residential construction, resilience, storms, weather, wind, wind resistance

Extreme weather, like the recent derecho storm that ripped through Iowa, is exposing the fragility of the built environment. Fortunately, in thinking about how to protect ourselves, we have the ability to combine human technological ingenuity with the systems nature already built.