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Kelly Lerner, One World Design

Kelly Lerner, One World Design
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We have officially finished our traveling!

But wait!

Our posting will continue until we’re clean out of footage, so keep watching because we have about 30+ episodes to come!

Thanks to everyone who let us sleep on their floor, stick a camera in their face or otherwise made this trip possible.

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Kelly Lerner is an architect in Spokane, Washington who works with strawbale construction. She also wrote a book about green remodeling!

Here are some terms highlighted in the video:

Strawbale Construction: a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both.
Infill:an urban planning term referring to the redevelopment of an existing developement or an underutilized space within a developed area.
Rastra: an insulated concrete form
Hydronic Heating: also known as ‘radiant floor heating’
R-value: efficiency rating for building insulation
Net-Zero: net energy consumption of the building is zero

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Andrew Millison

Andrew Millison
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I first met Andrew when I attended Ecosa back in 2005. That was my first exposure to permaculture and rainwater harvesting. Andrew has been living in, and working on, a project in Prescott called the Eco Hood. He also has been working with Dharma Dog Pictures to produce videoblogs about sustainability (which you can get to via andrew’s site: http://www.millisonecological.com/).

Here are some resources for some words in the post:

Watershed: is a region of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin

Permaculture: is both a lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature’s patterns (ecology).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/resources/permaculture-general-works/

Grey Water: Wash water from showers and sinks, excluding toilet and kitchen sink water which is black water.

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/resources/greywater-resources/

Bioremediation:any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation

Dynamic Water Harvesting: Water Harvesting+ Permaculture

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

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Tom Bender

Tom Bender
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We hung out with Tom Bender to talk about the spiritual side of sustainability and architecture.

Check out his site here:

TomBender.org

As well as his wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bender

Yestermorrow Design/Build School

Yestermorrow Design/Build School
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Yestermorrow has so many great classes from basic carpentry to designing your own house.
I mashed together our interview with Dan Eckstein and some of the things we explored with him on Yestermorrow’s campus.

Ecosa Institute

Ecosa Institute
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I attended The Ecosa Institute in the Spring of 2005. It’s a ’sustainable’ design program, but as Tony points out in the video, they welcome a variety of people whether they are currently students or not. Ecosa focuses on real projects with real clients which doesn’t normally happen in architecture or design school. The most important experience I had there was meeting people who were actually doing things, which inspired me to go on this road trip and meet more people doing things!

Bring Recycling

Bring Recycling
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Bring Recycling in Eugene, Oregon does way more than meets the eye. They salvage building materials, teach recycling practices, work in the community, and they’re currently building a new recycling and education center.

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