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  Beer and the Mythos of Place

  Simmons Buntin | Mon, Dec 17th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, civano, beer, local brewery, tuscon, alan eames, cerro baul, barrio brewing company, mythos of place | 0

  When my family moved from Denver to Tucson almost eight years ago, it became apparent that something significant was missing: locally brewed beer. While there were dozens of brewpubs and microbreweries in the Denver metropolitan area, there were only a handful in Tucson. Until recently, with the addition of Barrio Brewing Company in an industrial area near downtown, my fair Sonoran city’s craft-brewing residence had dwindled to a mere three. I would have guessed otherwise—that given the…

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  Who Can Afford to Live in a “Sustainable” Development?

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Dec 11th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: environment, simmons buntin, economics, tuscon, loreto bay, affordable sustainability, sustainable living | 1

  A few weeks back I traveled to Loreto, Baja California Sur, the quaint home of Baja’s first mission.  There I visited the Villages of Loreto Bay, eleven miles south of the town.  Loreto Bay is a mixed-use, new urbanist development that, at buildout, will house some 6,000 homes, plus commercial areas, a golf course, community gathering areas, and more.  So far, about 400 homes are complete, and Peter Clark, the development’s technical director of sustainability, speaks highly of the…

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