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
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:
Wikipedia: Bhopal Disaster
Yes Men, BBC Hoax Video
Yes Men, BBC Hoax Response Video
Also some other Links of interest:
Wikipedia: Dow Chemical Company
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
