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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Gaviotas is a project that Paolo Lugari started in the middle of the wet Colombia desert, knowing that someday people would have to expand to the Eastern part of the country.
Gaviotas Mural
Paolo Lugari and John Todd
Colleagues in the Green Design movement
from:
Todd Ecological Design, Inc. Todd Ecological Design, Inc. is an award-winning water and natural resources planning firm.
The Jerde Partnership
The Jon Jerde Partnership builds Arcologies (architecture + ecology) worldwide. He works with an international team of people, creating high density, multi-use buildings. He credits (at least some of his) inspiration to Paolo Soleri.
Taiwan
Ecological Landscapes
Green Packaging
Why? because the sea is full of plastic and Nerdles
Video: Algalita: Plastic Debris
Nerdles are tiny plastic pellets a few milimeters wide, which are the raw material for plastics manufacture. The pellets are melted and then formed into plastic products. While being shipped, some of them manage to escape into ocean water before the ships make it to port. They eventually wash up on beaches everywhere but, during their time out at sea, they absorb an assortment of chemical pollutants in ocean water.
Video: Plastic in the Oceans
Lost Valley Sustainable Education Center
Since 1989, Lost Valley Educational Center has been a place for learning, exploration, experimentation, and growth, through our educational programs, and also within our residential intentional community. Our programs include: the Ecovillage and Permaculture Institute, the retreat and conference facility with 120 beds plus camping, the Nature Center, the intern program, and various publications, including back issue sets of the journal Talking Leaves. Our residential community averages around 25 adult and child members, ages 6 to 65 (plus interns and others). LVEC uses a permaculture approach of ecological design and restoration to care-take our 87 beautiful acres of gardens, meadows, forests, pond, creek and trails. We are located 18 miles southeast of Eugene, Oregon, 20 minutes off of I-5 via Route 58 on 87 beautiful acres of gardens, meadows, forests, pond, creek, and trails.
We are taking applications for our fall Permaculture Certification Program Sept. 29-Oct. 24.
Aprovecho, Education for Sustainable Living
Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, OR
Fall Internship
Building local food networks, and the 100 Mile Diet
Sept. 1 - October 13
Learn to create a local food economy through the gathering and cultivation of food, forest, and fuel crops produced within 100 miles of the Aprovecho campus.
All of our programs combine lecture and discussion formats with practical, hands-on activities. We encourage a holistic understanding of each subject area that is grounded in specific experiences and enhanced by the broader intellectual perspectives available in our diverse learning environment.
from : the Aprovecho Media Page:
Watch
Video: Building a Rocket Stove
Video: How to Build an Insitutional Barrel Stove
Video: Shell Foundation- Breathing Space India
Video: “Rocket Science”
Video: Charcoal burning Rocket stove
Instructional Video: Building a VITA Stove
Listen
Ann Dornfeld’s (KLCC/NPR) report on
Cleaner Burning Cook Stoves
Download Publications
Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves
This manual covers the principles of Heat Transfer and Combustion Efficiency
Re-Use
Seattle and Bellingham’s Reuse Store
Re-Store
Industrial Materials Exchange
IMEX in North America
SFs’ Center For Reusable Art Parts
SCRAP
San Mateo’s County’s RecycleWorks
Recycle Works
California’s Integrated Waste Management
California’s ReUse Stores
Habitat for Humanity
Re-Store
MN, USA The ReUse Center Retail Stores
Quality Reclaimed Building Materials
Europe’s Re-Use A Shoe
Let Me Play
M&S and Oxfam Ireland Clothes Exchange
Oxfam Ireland needs UR gear
The Reuse People of America
WA CA CO
links
Planet Re-Use
providing the global design and construction community the best in reused and recycled materials
Ecology Center: Berkeley
Directory
Earthships
Earthship Biotecture, the official site, offering how-to books, demos, community, rentals, and a coffee table book to boot.
Nautilus
Rainwater Catchment
This part of Permaculture is about the water. Keeping the rain that falls on the land, keep things alive during the summer, keep it all wet, dank, moist, alive. Some of the most beautiful cisterns are made by techniques put out by earthships, using bottles and cans. In their part of the world the earth is reddish, adding color to the already colorful glass.
Permaculture Techniques
Permaculture is permanent agriculture and permanent culture.
The following include some techniques which help to keep Sun, Wind, and Water within a system, feeding it in a natural way, creating richness of land and soil.
From K.E.A.G.
Bill Mollison Techniques Bill and David Holmgren coined the term Permaculture in the 70s. He wrote the book, though others are now experimenting on their own, and doing wonderful new things.
Sustainable Landscape, includes good bibliography.
Leed and the Green Building Councils
Leed is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
Living Machines. Found through the above sites.
Green Products
Bonded Logic uses recycled jeans to create insulation.
Eco Rock is cleaner, greener drywall.
Organic Lifestyle’s bamboo floors.
Euroslate is made from recycled tires!
EuroSlate/EuroShake’s™rubber roof system is designed to be walked on without any restrictions, and its advanced cubical structure enhances insulation performance.
* Maintenance free
* Impact resistant
* Will never rust, split, crack or show other surface wear
* Lightweight (under 4 lbs. per sq. ft.)
* Energy Efficient
* Indestructible - there is no other product that will take wear and tear like Euroslate™
GreenSpace Homes and Cottages: Canadian building supplies.
First Ecological “All-in-One” Desktop
First Ecological “All-in-One” Desktop
The beginning of the end of the toxic computer industry. Give thanks!
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Wow. . . . .
BFI Programs: THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE
Catalyzing the vanguard of a design science revolution
Each year, BFI will offer a single $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a solution with significant potential to solve the world’s most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth’s ecological integrity.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change.
For more information, visit the Challenge website at http://challenge.bfi.org
Sustainable City - Dongtan, China
Dongtan, a city near Shanghai is on the way to being green. .
come, explore. . .
What else is there besides a Strip mall?
Is anything else possible?
Do we have to live and work within ugly architecture? Let’s not
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller
It is possible to build in such a way that the sun comes in a lot during the winter and not during the summer. It is called Passive Solar Building and what you need is to face your building toward the south. The way Soleri does it is he builds an apse which is a quarter sphere. The lower winter sun shines right in and the high summer sun stays out, the shade a cool place to be.
There are many techniques:
Green Building
Makes a great home or office:
Earthships
Earthships is an amazing place to visit and do an apprenticeship, internship or get a job. There is a small community of people building. They do some prefab, so construction at the site is faster.
These places use and reuse all of their water. It is categorized into gray water and black water. They grow a garden inside and outside the house, and make cisterns re-using bottles.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic,
objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Myth of Arcosanti
The Myth of Arcosanti: Arcosanti in the News
A Green Utopia Grows in the Arizona Desert
The Washington Post
By Andrea Sachs
(don’t forget to read the part about the Rubix cube party)
12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature - Janine Benyus
With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle with. In this inspiring talk, Janine Benyus provides fascinating examples of biomimicry — the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment that sustains them, biomimicry can contribute to the long-term health of our planet. -TED
Solar and Wind Power
Green Energy Resources:
Green Mountain
Be Green
Green Mountain Energy
Sustainable Waves
Sustainable Waves
specializes in sustainable energy solutions for the entertainment industry.
Are Cars Sustainable?
How can we wean ourselves into a better way to move?
Brazil had a federal mandate: We are going to make the switch. They went into a 5 year recession.
sugar ethanol
Zenn Car Zero emmission no noise:
Zenn
Xtracycle
SUB
for families
Peapod
for those of you with $$$bank
Tesla
Motorcycle engine with a roof for two
Smart
Toyata
Hybrids
Watercar
Daniel Dingle’s Project
Here are Ford’s latest designs.
What do you think?
Ford’s Fuel Cells
Dynamic Architecture
This building will have giant wind turbines between the floors.
Dynamic Architecture
(pause the video to let it load)
This building is scheduled to be built in Moscow, the biggest building in the world:Crystal Island
Australia’s Green Plans
What a beautiful building. Talk about green design.
Sustainable Development
Australia is going green: Sydney 2030
Gaviotas - Colombian Sustainable Village
The Gaviotas Project in Columbia was started by Paolo Lugari because he knew that one day the population would rise so high that People would have live in the eastern wet desert region. He found was to sustain this community. He went to the University in Bogota to ask the students there to help him with his research. He found a tree which would grow there and has since planted 6 Million of these pine trees. The trees have brought birds which in turn have brought the rest of the forest within the seeds in their feces. Lugari and the people of Gaviotas have found that tapping the trees also bring resource to the community, something to sell in the marketplace. “Tapped like maple syrup, the natural resin is used in paints, cosmetics, perfumes, and medicines in lieu of petroleum-based substances. When distilled in Gaviotas’ pollution-free factory, its byproduct is marketable turpentine.” from Mother Jones
Flying Green - Jet Style
At Arcosanti, they say: If we all took a trip, the Ozone Layer would be gone.
How can we continue to fly, sustainably?
1. fly less
2. fly green:
Green Flight
Offset my flight:
Uniglobe
Green My Flight
Offset and Calculate your Carbon:
Flight Center
Article
Travelocity
Clean Travel
Green Transportation
Terrapass
Green Design in the World and in the Future
Ken Yeang is a new visionary on the forefront:
Wow. What a difference. Is it earth day or is green design really starting take take a hold?
The time is now.
China is addressing the subject and building green.
The roof has solar panels and rainwater collection tanks. But it’s a serene spot, with seating areas in a garden of grass, trees and shrubs — grown on a shallow bed of volcanic ash that is lighter and less water-dependent than traditional soil.
“When this building went up, the neighborhood lost green space. So we’re returning that bit of green with this roof garden. Moreover, the garden helps insulate the building,” Yang says.
Yang is proud that the entire structure cost less than the average government building in Beijing.
Why We Need Green Design
Green Design is action towards a sustainable planet.
We can Act through:
Consumer change
Education
Green design
Leeds
Eco-friendly products
Consuming less
Riding the bicycle
Permaculture
Walking
Turning off the lights (thanks a watt!)
Ecocity World Summit 2008
World View of Global Warming and How Cities Can Save the Earth
April 22-26, San Francisco, CA
The International Ecocity Conference Series brings together the key innovators, decision makers, technologists, businesses and organizations shaping the conversation around ecological and sustainable city, town and village design, planning and development. We intend to put these issues on the economic and environmental agenda for 2008 and beyond.
Epic 2008 Vancouver BC
Epic Expo
Epic is a sustainable living expo held in Vancouver every spring.
Find out how to green your life!
ideal bite can help in the meantime!
These are some of the resources I found there:
Green Office Supplies
Green Printing in Vancouver and Richmond, BC
Organic Coffee Fair Trade, Saanichton, BC
Canada’s Seafood Guide
Green Design runs through all of our systems, designs and chioces.
see Planet108.
Epic is a part of the larger Globe Foundation
Epic Sustainable Living Expo
Green Roofs Worldwide
Imagine if every roof were green: Cities would hide under layers of green, Looking out your window would be fun again, and Rooftop garden culture would come alive!
2009 World Green Roof Congress in Toronto
Events and Classes in US and Canada
greenroofs.com
Green Roofs Australia:
greenroofs.wordpress.com
Dockside Green
Model Community?
This one is pushing the envelope. This ‘Green Building’ uses biomass for fuel, and reclaims wasterwater on site. The website offers a lot: about the design. This is an Arcology, folks, in Victoria. Arcology, a termed coined by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, fuses the words Architecture and Ecology. The concepts of Arcolgy are: simplification, complexification, duration, miniturization, high-density, and multi-use buildings. Basically, everything you need in a walkable distance, within a closed system (or as closed as you can get these days). What helps to close this system, is the use of what is often called Permaculture: permanent agriculture, being used here in the form of biomass, wastewater reclaimation, wind and solar. Permaculture takes as much of the energy offered by the environment (sun, wind, water, methane), and seeks to keep that energy on site, creating a richer, and richer environment.
In Dockside Green, there is residential and office space, shops, a fitness center, artist live-work space, and a (kayak) dock. This is high end, as it is conveniently placed in an urban center, where land is expensive. For a much more affordable option, consider Arcosanti, Paolo’s Urban Laboratory, a city of 6,000 in the making.
One question remains: does Dockside offer rooftop access as Arcosanti does? There, every rooftop is accessible as a garden, a unique place above the city, or a way to get from one part of the city to another. If every rooftop were green. . . imagine the world.
docksidegreen.com
Article
Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center
These are some friends of mine from Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s Urban Labroatory.
They have internships for May and June as well as Volunteer days, and one and two day intensives.
We are all from a Common river
Common River is a pending Non-profit working with a community in Ethiopia, called Aleta Wondo in the region called Sidama. Check out their slideshow. (I finished updating their website yesterday). This organization is working to create a model community. They are not looking to ‘aid’ Aleto Wondo, but rather to look at what is happening in the region that is working, and allow others to learn from it. The 52 page slideshow is a look into how they are doing that. from the site: “Tsegaye was able to reclaim his property in Aleta Wondo from the government and has donated it to the program. He has 20 acres on the edge of town and a hotel in the downtown, ready to build centers of learning for children, women and adults. Tsegaye’s parents were founders of Aleta Wondo, and hence he was able to continue his parent’s legacy, a humanitarian dream to develop their community that began back in the 1940s. There is a tremendous amount of goodwill from the community to have one of their sons return. “
Eco-Design & Sustainable Architecture Aficionados
A letter we received:
To Fellow Eco-Design & Sustainable Architecture Aficionados:
This is a message from a member of the Eco-design + Sustainable Architecture Group whose goal is to spread the news about their independent media: Their new web site www.worldarchitecture.org aims to give voice to the voiceless, create an international community of architects, provide equal chance for contemporary architecture from all countries to be represented worldwide!
Since March 1, World Architecture Community was introduced to the public. The World Architecture Community, launched on March 1, with 200 honorary members including Hans Hollein, Mario Botta, and Fumihiko Maki. We are the first interactive database created to provide opportunity for all local practices to become internationally recognized. Unique features of this portal enable all members to contribute in the making of the future of architectural thought by submitting, discussing, editing, rating, sharing their work.
All members will be able to submit links, articles, projects (even unrealized or projects under construction can be submitted) to this completely free international portal. Contributions from all members will have equitable chances to be represented, promoted, reviewed and criticized at this international arena.
Best,
Ophelia Fletcher
LINK:
worldarchitecture.org
Wishing you a Happy Earth Month!
Esperanza
Welcome to ShinyMarble
ShinyMarble is having it’s birth-day. This is day 1.
Here is a few links to get started:
www.arcosanti.org
http://www.arcosanti.org/media/publication/hyperBuilding.html
This Poster is a reproduction of the presentation panel seen on the Arcosanti Tour. The panel was originally commissioned for a Japanese consortium on future urban architecture.
xtracycle.com
City Farmer
in Vancouver BC
Urban Agriculture is a new and growing field that is not completely defined yet even by those closest to it. It concerns itself with all manner of subjects from rooftop gardens, to composting toilets, to air pollution and community development. It encompasses mental and physical health, entertainment,
building codes, rats, fruit trees, herbs, recipes and much more.
-city farmer
cityfarmer.org
Parks board says: bugs not drugs
“The ladybugs were at the City Farmer garden with other environmentally friendly methods to illustrate a new city bylaw banning the application of pesticides. Dessureault said pests and weeds can be prevented without using harmful chemicals. She said the parks board, city and Vancouver Coastal Health are encouraging residents to ‘get their yards off drugs.’” April 9, 2006
