From Leah Petriccione: In this semester long “Global Studio,” the goal was to design a primary school and community center located in Kyekyewere, Ghana. After designing the individual classrooms, as well as furniture pieces, in pairs we took on the conceptual community spaces that would accompany the school. Primary school children’s needs within the space … Read more
The Nubian vault is an African technique for the construction of timberless vaulted roofs. The AVN (Association la Voute Nubienne), through its Program ’Earth roofs in the Sahel’, helps provide families in sub-Saharan Africa with comfortable, sustainable, affordable, homes. In a recent Newsletter from this organization, I was impressed by the statistics they provided regarding … Read more
Here’s another awesome sustainable community under development. “SPICE: WHAT IS IT? A VISION—Creating an intentional community Ø A small, planned community that encourages reduced consumption and materialism and emphasizes our role as caretakers of the natural environment; Ø Respect for individual talents, interests, privacy, and needs, including the need for interaction with others; Ø Use … Read more
“I check out materials available, some villages have stone, some make bricks, everybody had dirt. Timber is scarce and termites eat anything made of wood in weeks. If we use bricks they will need half the forests in Karamoja as firewood to bake them. Not very sustainable…everybody has dirt. Dirt? I remember making bunkers in … Read more
Gardening Like a Forest- A Conversation With Dave Jacke Sustainable World Radio I Love Cob – Beyond Organic Podcast Cob Houses and Natural Building Permaculture Media Blog – Podcast with Paul Stamets, Rob Hopkins and Richard Manning Transition Culture.org RichSoil.com Please leave a comment if you know of other good podcast sites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rn3AJv_4X0 “One Community is a low-impact living model demonstrating large-scale sustainability and fulfilled living as the open source blueprints for a sustainable civilization. Our mission is to demonstrate a new way of living that addresses the pressing problems of today and prepares the world for the challenges of the next century through a duplicable model … Read more