Building Green Increases Demand For Traditional Materials. Meet the Team. ThePOOSH.org is the product of taking sustainability, traditional and alternative building methods, and social networking to the next level.
James Self Co-Founder, Innovator and Social-Entrepreneur James' motivation to establish thePOOSH.org was based upon a lifelong dream to self-build his own sustainable home. The only question and obstacle was how?! "Discovering the documentary 'Garbage Warrior' opened my eyes to alternative sustainable self-build. It's incredible what information is available online and now I'm commited to developing my theoretical and practical skills through thePOOSH.org. About Us - Room to Grow - Gueshouse, Greenhouse, Garden - Boissevain, Manitoba, Canada. Magdalene (Maggie) Andres is a small town girl from Rosthern, Saskatchewan – just north of Saskatoon. I, David (Neufeld), am a farm boy from this area. We’re both from Mennonite church families and so it’s natural enough that we would meet attending the University of Waterloo in Ontario where we were both associated with the Mennonite supported Conrad Grebel College.
We had a bit of an unconventional courting and wedding and then took off to work for Mennonite Central Committee for 10 years in South Africa, Lesotho and Saskatoon before settling onto our homestead in the Turtle Mountains. All four children were born while we were with MCC. Kholiswa (Kholi) was born under a lightning filled sky in ’84 at the Umtata, South Africa hospital with mauve flowered Jacaranda trees up and down the street. Home. Contact. Arcosanti, an Early Eco-City, Faces the Future.
THE pilgrimage began with a black-and-white handbill on a campus bulletin board. At the top was a sketch of an ultramodern compound rising above a desert canyon: a city upon a hill. Next came the manifesto. “If you are truly concerned about the problems of pollution, waste, energy depletion, land, water, air and biological conservation, poverty, segregation, intolerance, population containment, fear and disillusionment,” the poster began. Then, at the bottom, the remedy: “Join us.” Occupying the middle of nowhere must have appealed to the students, architects and seekers of the 1970s who founded Arcosanti , an “urban laboratory” in the desert 70 miles north of Phoenix.
Above all, they were able to join an ongoing colloquy with the city’s visionary designer, Paolo Soleri. For the most part, though, they left. Now, Arcosanti is experiencing its own version of Cuba’s “special period”: a transitional era of privation and possibility. But if Mr. Mr. Whatever Mr. DURING Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. New Workshops: Natural Building and Permaculture in 2012. Courses - Centre for Sustainable Community Development. Sustainability of People, the Planet and Places (Instructed by Sean Markey) The thrust of this course is to develop one's ability to simultaneously think and act towards economic, social, cultural and ecological objectives.
It is based on the key concept that many of our most critical global issues (e.g., climate change and peak oil) are rooted in local, day-to-day problems (e.g., inefficient land use patterns). It follows that enlightened local decisions about these issues will be of global as well as local benefit. Locanomics: Principles & Practice for Community Prosperity (Instructed by Michael Shuman) This course sets the frame for the rest of the program. Emerging Economic Theories & Practices (Instructed by Nicole Chaland in 2013 & Charles Eisenstein in 2014) This course will review the most compelling new economic theory and practice such as the steady-state economy, gift economy, sharing economies, green collar economies and co-operative economies.
New Economy Study Tour. Smart Kitchen Space-Saver: Dish Drying Closet Above The Sink. Dornob/via For those of us who find conventional dish-drying racks take up too much space and keep dish clutter in full view on the counter, this old Finnish invention may just do the trick.
It's a dish rack that's integrated into a bottomless cabinet above the sink, so that the step of drying wet dishes is skipped completely, and are placed there to dry, out of view. Loosely translated from Finnish, it's called a “dish drying closet.” The invention was designed by Maiju Gebhard in the 1940's to cut down on the 30,000 odd hours that a typical housewife supposedly spent during her lifetime washing, drying and putting away the dishes. The racks in these dish drying closets are usually made of plastic-coated steel wire, allowing dishes to dry properly. The Agricultural Building and Equipment Plan List.
ICC - International Code Council. Prole.info. 2012 International Straw Builder's Conference. Natural Building Colloquium at O.U.R. Ecovillage with Mark Lakeman, Elke Cole. International Building Code. The International Building Code (IBC) is a model building code developed by the International Code Council (ICC).
It has been adopted throughout most of the United States. History[edit] Since the early 1900s, the system of building regulations in the United States was based on model building codes developed by three regional model code groups. Traditional Turf Houses In Iceland In Iceland. The Icelandic turf house was the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone, and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities. Due to the lack of transport and Iceland’s remoteness, importing foreign timber was not very common and mostly reserved for ship and church building.
However, Iceland did have a large amount of turf that was suitable for construction. photo source.