Andrew Carnegie understood something that feels almost subversive today: If you accumulate extraordinary wealth from society, you owe society infrastructure, not favors. Andrew Carnegie did
Category: Johnstown
America Needs to Learn How to Build Towns Again I keep seeing the same map online. Red counties.Blue cities.A thousand arguments layered on top of
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Cambria County Johnstown is not broken.It is under-populated. That distinction matters, because it changes what the problem is—and therefore what the solution can
This house is an example of why Johnstown never fits neatly into one architectural category. Johnstown wasn’t built in one confident burst. It was built,
Bright Meadow Group Cernunnos Foundation Culture Government Johnstown Labor Science and Research Thought Experiments
A note to Johnstown, PA
I left Indianapolis for a lot of reasons. None of them matter. What matters is why I came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. A few years ago,
Bright Meadow Group Design Environmental Johnstown Permaculture Science and Research Thought Experiments
The Will Allen Model, Extended
A Five-Acre Regenerative Urban Farm for Maximum Food Production This system is built on the core insight demonstrated by Will Allen: Living soil and living
Artificial Intelligence Bright Meadow Group Design Government Johnstown Man Made Permaculture River Refugium Project Science and Research Thought Experiments
A Different Way to Think About Data Centers
A Local Ownership Model for Johnstown and Cambria County (This could work anywhere and should. Also site selection on the image was for convenience. No
The Johnstown Tribune Building Small-City Architecture, the Free Press, and the Quiet Work of Beauty There are buildings that shout, and buildings that hold. This
There are buildings that announce themselves, and there are buildings that hold a city. The First United Methodist Church of Johnstown belongs firmly to the
If you’ve been following the River Refugium Project, the consulting work growing out of it, or the wide scatter of ideas that land on Blue
Bright Meadow Group Design Energy Environmental Government Johnstown Man Made Science and Research Thought Experiments
The Keystone Network
High Speed Rail for Pennsylvania An Incremental, State-Scale High-Speed Rail Framework for the Commonwealth Some ideas feel too big until you shrink them down to
225 Market Street, Johnstown PA There are buildings you pass without noticing, and then there are buildings that quietly insist on being seen. The structure
Artificial Intelligence Bright Meadow Group Cernunnos Foundation Design Environmental Government Johnstown Science and Research Uncategorized
Bright Meadow Group: Observe, Design, Intervene
Making Complex Systems Work Most people learn to work harder, to grind through a problem. Hard work solves immediate problems, but it doesn’t always change
Franklin Street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania It’s tempting—especially if you’ve spent any time around modern infrastructure manuals—to describe the Franklin Street Bridge as a basic bridge. A
St. John Gualbert Cathedral and the Architecture of Flood City One of the great, underappreciated truths about Johnstown is that it is a city told
There is no “Other” in a republican state. There is no idea more corrosive to the republican tradition—nor more hostile to the virtues it claims
At 510 Vine Street in Johnstown, there is a building that does not quite belong to its surroundings—and that is exactly why it matters. In
& Happy Holidays from the Blue Ribbon Team A Christmas Note From All of Us at Cernunnos Foundation & Blue Ribbon Team As the year
If you want to understand Johnstown in one stop—its grief, its grit, and its insistence on being a real city again—you walk to the northeast
“I Am an Edge Species.” People ask me what niche I fill.What role I play.What “space” Bright Meadow Group occupies in the consulting world. Here’s
We’ve been in southwestern Pennsylvania long enough now to have a flurry of places we’ve eaten at, loved, and fully intended to write about. Truth
or is it finding my inner Pennamite I didn’t expect to move to Pennsylvania and find myself admiring its political architecture. I’ve lived in enough
Words and photos by Robb Smith There’s a kind of luck in cloudy light.It softens edges, dulls the glare, and lets details speak for themselves.
Pillar to Post Home Inspectors, Cambria County Some people make their work look easy, even when the clock is stacked against them. Don Cessna of
to the Blue Ribbon Team …and to our new home in beautiful Johnstown, Pennsylvania It feels good to say that out loud — we’re home.After