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.
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When we hit up N.O. we stayed with Hillary Strobel of Replant New Orleans.
Words-of-Use (as defined by wikipedia):
Bioremediation: any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition.
Mycoremediation: coined by Paul Stamets and refers specifically to the use of fungal mycelia in bioremediation.
Daryl Hannah did a great video with Paul Stamets about mycoremediation, totally worth a watch: http://www.dhlovelife.com/v2/show/archive/index24.html
Compost Tea: made by steeping compost in water, puts necessary microbes back into the soil
Food Security: a situation in which people do not live in hunger or fear of starvation.
We did anther video about food security if you haven’t seen it already: Food Share
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!
Diane Wilson is the author of “An Unreasonable Woman”. We met up with her in Houston at a book signing and she talked about her incredible story. I read her book on our way to Texas and was floored by the events that took place. It reads like fiction but not an ounce of it is made up. I split this into two parts because I think she’s mesmerizing to listen to and it was hard to edit this one down into anything less.
Info about her book, click here.
Here are some links about Bhopal, India mentioned in the video, certainly worth a look-see:
Yes Men, BBC Hoax Response Video
Also some other Links of interest:
I’ve taken many-a-hike at Merk Forest and also stayed in their cabins for a few Vermont winter nights. They are a fun place to visit with kids because of all the farm animals and also a well managed forest and trail system. We spoke with Ken Smith about what they do there and what sustainability means. He talks about sustainability being unrealistic unless it’s reachable by more people. How are these concepts or ideals made ‘attainable’ by a wider population? What do you all think?
Burlington Currency Project is a really cool organization making their own money that only circulates in the local economy.
There are a lot of great resources on the BCP website to learn more about how BCP works as well as theories and info on all sorts of alternative currencies.
This was one of my favorite stops on the road trip because it was an entirely new idea for me. Since then I started watching a google video series about the history of money and how it works. It’s totally worth a watch especially for it’s hilarious public access graphics.
Ithica Hours: this was the inspirational local currency project for BCP
Time Banking: Another project underway with BCP is Time Dollars, this website explains that further.
Burlington Time Dollars Wiki: Soon to have a video blog started by the fabulous Joanna Dillon
Other Alternative Currencies Worldwide
Money Masters: A documentary all about money! (Did you know the Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank?)
The Future of Money, By Bernard Lietaer: book
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Bicycle Inter-Community Action and Salvage
I suppose the name says it all! This was an impromptu visit to BICAS in Tucson, AZ. They have a similar model to Bikes Not Bombs in Boston.
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
Technorati Tags: Sustainable, Green, Road Trip, Green Building, Architecture, Straw Bale, Radiant Floor Heating, Alternative Materials, Energy Efficiency, Net Zero
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.
Technorati Tags: Sustainable, Green, Road Trip, Recycle, Recycling, Oregon, Salvage, Re-Use, Building Materials
My friend Andrea Davis is working as a “forager” for the General’s Daughter, a restaurant in Sonoma, California. She grows herbs and tomatoes for the restaurant’s use, as well as “forages” for specialty foods at the farmer’s market in town.
We also spoke with the Chef, Preston Dishman, who illustrated the benefits of cooking and eating local food.
Here is an article on another California “forager”:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0503/p20s01-lifo.html
Technorati Tags: Sustainable, Green, Road Trip, Farming, Sonoma, Restaurant, Forager, Local Food
