The Balancing Act_ Design and Green

My thesis topic calls for atleast one unofficial write-up, so here I go.
The act of researching a topic for research led me to no place else but home, where my heart belongs. Whatever I may do or whereever I may travel, this is one place which always pulls me back, so the inevitable case of taking a thesis topic back home. And when all the developed countries are facing a critical energy and environment crisis, where does home stand. An easy question even by a layman. They are the ones who face power cuts, polluted roads, water, air practically a life amidst pollution and ofcourse everlasting shortage of resources.
So is this country not the one which should be leading the race of becoming evolved and developed in a green way ( is there a green way? ) . But that is all together a different topic which need write up.
What I am struggling with here is to evolve a design, using minimum materials and resources and that too from a limited set to select from. Would this constraint be an example of avante garde or a mistake with which my m.arch thesis be stamped for life. I m sitting here with a sketchbook ( made of re-cycled paper) n some markers ( non eco-friendly) to design the master piece. I hope it is a master piece in the making, but I am being bogged down by these climate responsive, eco-friendly basically green 'in-fashion' words. how to evolve a design through nature, using natural materials...I tried to study this even as an undergrad...BUT the only materials I can feel the texture off are steel, glass, those minimalist designs created by the late modernists architects, how to obtain those clean cuts, the slender lines of building profiles using earthly, minimum processed materials ?
Does designing green ever do justice to the contemporary styles or modernist styles of architecture that we know....and what we are talking here is only one minute aspect of designing green...

The best time to procrastinate is "NOW"

8 things and more

Arcane tagged my blog, so I decided to write it too , and I write because I think it would be nice to write about all this....

Eight things I am passionate about: ( not in order as they appear though)

1.) Design

2.) Talking on phone with frnds and family

3.) Green Living

4.) chatting

5.) tea

6) writing

7) sports

8) cooking



Eight things I want to do before I die:



1) Be a guitarist for a heavy metal band

2) Dance for a dance troupe

3) Try my hands at bartending

4) Make a green living community

5) go on a world trip with family and frnds

6) go camping in australia

7) be a millionaire

8) try achieving at least one of the above



Eight things I say often:

1) OMG, r u kidding

2) wassup

3) ya sure

4) please :)

5) awesome

6) hum nahin hain ( not tat often now, but i just love saying this )

7) i just love you

8) pshhk ( a strange sound that i make )



Eight books I've read recently:

1) John Grisham - the firm

2) John Grisham - The last Juror

3) Dwell

4) On Beauty and Being Just

5) Sudoku ( ok I have not been reading much apart from coursework lately , but this is something i do so regularly)

6) Catch - 22





Eight things that attract me to my best friends:

1) Unconditional Support and availability at all times

2) craziness

3) The weird connection that I establish with them

4) Sense of Humor ( read PJ)

5) their love on talking on the phone

6) Taste of Music

7) Travelling

8) Shopping



Ok so I have to pass this tag as well, Can I pass it back ?