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Clearly the B.E.S.T.

I can hardly believe it. This is what happens when IT is foisted upon hapless governmental organisations that don’t have a shred of tech-savvy.
I visited the Bombay Electric Supply & Transport website to see if I could find a form for payment through the Electronic Clearing System, ECS. I found the download page easily enough [...]

Tuesday, 17th July 2007 [ General ]
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Greywater Treatment

While discussing kitchen and bath drainage for one of the bungalows at Nasrapur, my clients wondered if ecologically safe soaps were available in India – this after I suggested we drain the water directly into a plant bed and possibly grow a nice papaya tree in it.
We spent vacations at my mum’s ancestral village when [...]

Friday, 6th July 2007 [ Architecture | Environmental ]
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Laurie Baker E-Books

This link was sent to me by a client of mine and has a bunch of books, in PDF format, not just about – and by – Laurie Baker but also on other subjects of interest like trees and ecological sanitation. Most books are in English but some are in Hindi or Marathi as well.

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Monday, 2nd July 2007 [ Architecture | Environmental | General ]
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Archicado – Resources for Archicad and Artlantis

The site is in French but the tooltips are in English and it’s mostly visual anyway; you shouldn’t have any problem finding an object of your choice. There’s a textures section that’s coming “soon”. All told, it’s a pretty good resource.
Go to: Archicado