ADPSR Bulletin 2010-02-27
 Northern California ADPSR Newsletter |
27 February 2010
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ADPSR NEWS
ADPSR is now accepting nominations for our 2010 Lewis Mumford Awards.
Call for Nominations - Deadline March 31, 2010
Through the Mumford Awards, ADPSR recognizes outstanding efforts and achievements in the categories of Peace, Environment, and Development. Since 1992, we have given 54 awards over 18 years to individuals and organizations that exemplify our goals of disarmament, preservation of the natural and built environment, and socially responsible development. .
The National Board requests your assistance in nominations for the 2010 Lewis Mumford Awards. Lewis Mumford's writings continue to inspire and remind us that architecture, design, and planning, must respond to human needs, harmonize with its surroundings, and reflect the aspirations and social context of our civilization.
The Awards Ceremony will be on Saturday, June 19, 2010, in Berkeley, California. The deadlines for nominations is March 31st, 2010, and the winners will be announced approximately April 20, 2010.
Visit http://adpsr.org/national/lewis-mumford-award-2010-nominations
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TOWARD A JUST METROPOLIS:
From Crises to Possibilities
June 16-20, 2010 Conference San Francisco Bay Area
Call for Proposals - Deadline extended to March 15, 2010
Presentations, Posters and Workshops
Classroom-based sessions, which will occur on Friday, June 18th and Saturday, June 19th, are the primary way for organizations and individuals to showcase their work, workshop new ideas, and network with others invested in similar areas of work. The call below is designed to stimulate and help you format your proposal, but the most important thing is to send us your ideas! Don't hesitate to email workshops@justmetropolis.org with questions.
Visit www.justmetropolis.org for more information
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In this issue:
ADPSR NEWS
2010 Lewis Mumford Awards
Just Metropolis Conference Now Accepting Papers
ADPSR NORCAL EVENTS
The Science of Building Green: Materials, Energy, Health March 16, 2010, San Francisco
COMMUNITY EVENTS
SB375 & Transit Oriented Development
New Course starting March 11th, at UC Berkeley Extension
Bringing Feng Shui Magic into YOUR Home: Practical Application Seminar
AIAEB: LEED Green Associate Exam Training Notification March 23, 2010
Composting Toilets - Rainwater Catchment - Greywater Workshop Saturday, March 13th
Film and discussion: The Age of Stupid
Sunday, March 7
California Straw Building Association SPRING Conference April 9, 10 and 11, 2010
EcoHouse Tour Sunday, April 18, 2010
Earth Cafe Course Series Coming Up!
News and Information
Green building trends for Almanac--Tight deadline!
Violators of Alameda County Landfill Ban to Face Fines
Blog postings Haiti
EMPLOYMENT
Natural Building Positions Sought
NEEDED: residential mechanical engineers
FURTHER THINKING
The World Beyond the Megaton
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ADPSR NORCAL EVENTS
ADPSR Monthly Presentation
The Science of Building Green:
Materials, Energy, and Health
March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
AIA San Francisco 130 Sutter Street, 6th Floor $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Co-Sponsored by the Ecological Building Network (www.ecobuildnetwork.org)
Architects, Designers, and Builders face an enormous array of decisions. Yet most of these are based on incomplete information about the physics that will actually happen to the building. On March 16 join a panel of experts for a presentation and in-depth discussion of what is really going on in our buildings – how energy flows, how buildings fail (and how to avoid that), and how they can contribute or injure human well-being and the health of our environment.
The discussion will be led by John F. Straube, Ph.D., P.Eng. John is a specialist building science engineer who has been deeply involved in the areas of building enclosure design, moisture physics, and whole building performance as a consultant, researcher, and educator. Other panelists include Bruce King, Ecological Building Network, and others to be determined
Visit http://adpsr.org/nor-cal/lecture-march-16-2010
$10.00 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
RSVP: lecture@adpsr-norcal.org or pre-register through
Brown Paper Tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/101816 |
FURTHER THINKING
The World Beyond the Megaton
by Oscar Eggers
There is a world beyond the megaton
The intermittent rising rage
The anxious tear-washed peace that
sees no understanding beyond the
dream of understanding of yesterday
The stoic stance of statues bearing
spheres beyond the stars of chance
the matter power of orbit flight
and missile might
Beyond the world that made us
strongly weak and weakly strong
Beyond, but soon to touch our
fingertip and then our grasp
And in that grasp the clasp of faith
each in himself and theirs the other
As I am I of you and you are you of me
There is a world beyond
What may we yet together build?
What may we yet together be?
Upon some newer truths as yet unmade
Perhaps infinity.
From http://www.confrontingnuclearwar.com/
Available for purchase or free download (pdf format) |
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
SB375 & Transit Oriented Development
New Course starting March 11th, at UC Berkeley Extension
Taught by Courtney Miller, ADPSR’s chair of the 2008/ 2009 Building Ecology Lecture Series
Introduction to California’s new regional planning law SB 375 (established by AB32 – now under threat by a ballot measure aiming to repeal it) that attempts to fight global warming by reshaping communities around walkable transit-oriented neighborhoods. Learn how to use the elements of urban design to reduce mobile source emissions (cars and light trucks) with new techniques in regional planning that engage the public in alternative growth strategies. Study existing transit-oriented projects that are already making a difference reducing California’s overwhelming reliance on four-wheelers.
6 meetings
March 11 to April 15: Thurs., 6:30-9:30 pm
San Francisco: Room 205, Art and Design Center, 95 Third St.
$390
Courtney Miller, M.Arch., LEED AP, is an architect/ urban designer who has taught courses in architecture and urban design at the Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Textbook for this course: The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development Editors: Hank Ditmar and Gloria Ohland
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Bringing Feng Shui Magic into YOUR Home:
Practical Application Seminar
With Richard Feather Anderson, Feng Shui Master
5 Tuesday evenings, 7:15 to 9:30 p. m.
From March 2 to 30
In and around Santa Rosa
Not sure if life-supporting chi is leaking out of, or being drained away from, your home? Worried you may have a “missing wealth corner”? Got a room that doesn’t feel good, and you don’t know why? Can’t afford a private consultation? Here’s a solution!
Join this series of practical application sessions! We will visit most of the participants’ homes, and analyze others from floor plans and photos, to address these and other common concerns. Richard will guide you through his unique multi-disciplinary process so you can learn how to spot dysfunctional arrangements and compromised circulation paths, and invent simple, inexpensive, customized remedies that are in harmony with your personal aesthetics.
Through this process of evaluating your own and others’ spaces you will come to understand feng shui as a set of common-sense principles of good design, based on the laws of Nature. Specifically, you will increase your awareness of how your environment affects you physically, psychologically and spiritually; understand how enhancing everyone’s experience of entering your home can bring more supportive energy into your life; realize how to utilize the energetic dynamics of the Ba Gua cosmogram to weave your activity areas into a single medicine wheel; and experience how astute re-arrangements help you get more accomplished.
Join us and be inspired to transform your home into a sanctuary that better serves your daily needs, supports you life goals, and feeds your soul.
Richard Feather Anderson, B. Sc. Architecture, has been designated a feng shui master by Feng Shui Institute International. He is the founder of the American School of Geomancy, and one of the longest practicing geomancers in America, with over thirty-five years experience. He gives clear explanations of ancient wisdom and makes learning fun.
Cost: $40 each evening, or $175 discounted rate, if received by Feb. 27.
For More Information: Call Richard at 707.544.8203 or geomant@sonic.net
To Register: Call Richard at 707.544.8203 and then mail a check payable to Richard F. Anderson, to: 1570 North St. #17, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
** Location, Directions and What to bring will be given after your registration payment is received.
American School of Geomancy
www.richardfeatheranderson.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AIAEB: LEED Green Associate Exam Training Notification
March 23, 2010,
Sign up now for the LEED Green Associate Exam Training and get the best
prices in the Bay Area! Register before February 23 to receive the Early Bird Discount! AIA East Bay Members only $190; AIA Members only $255 and nonmembers only $315. Materials are included!
Attendees will also receive a $10-off coupon for their next AIA East Bay
LEED Training.
The LEED Green Associate Exam Training is taught by Michelle Cottrell, LEED
AP, IIDA of Green Education Services. Michelle is currently under contract with Wiley Publishers to write a series of three LEED Exam Prep Books including the LEED Green Associate Exam Book.
This workshop will not only qualify you to sit for the LEED Green Associate
Exam but will also cover all the key concepts necessary to pass. You will learn how to master the LEED Rating Systems along with "real world" examples.
Tuesday March 23, 2010 Time: 8:00am- 5:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Cost: Register before February 23 for Early Bird Prices.
$190 for AIA East Bay Members; $255 AIA Members; $315 for non-members
Registration Required. Go to www.aiaeb.org to register.
8 CES/HSW (4 SD) LUs
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 510/464-3600 or EMAIL events@aiaeb.org.
www.aiaeb.org Amanda Findlay Program Coordinator AIA East Bay A Chapter of the American Institute of Architects 1405 Clay Street Oakland, CA 94612 * phone: 510/464-3600 * fax: 510/464-3616 * email: amanda@aiaeb.org * web: www.aiaeb.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Composting Toilets - Rainwater Catchment - Greywater Workshop
Where: Common Circle Education - 2130 Center Street
When: Saturday, March 13th - 9am - 5:30pm (with lunch break)
Common Circle Education is thrilled to present an innovative all-day workshop on design of greywater, rainwater harvesting and composting toilets with Laura Allen, founder of Greywater Action of Oakland!
Bonus: Evening talk on bioremediation + mushrooms FREE with early registration!
Cost: $95.00 advance registration - ends March 10 $145.00 regular rate
more information :
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Film and discussion: The Age of Stupid
Sunday, March 7, at 11:30AM
at the Albany Twin Theater at 1115 Solano Avenue
Contact: Catherine Sutton transitionalbanyca@gmail.org (510-528-2261)
Transition Albany invites you to watch this compelling independent UK film that combines six documentary threads following the lives of people from all over the world whose lives have been affected by climate change, and a fictional scenario starring acclaimed British actor, Pete Postelthwaite, in 2055.
Discussion follows.
Transition Albany is one of the U.S. Transition Initiatives which are part of a vibrant, international grassroots movement that builds community resilience in response to the challenges of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis.
Reviews of the movie:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-stupid
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CASBA
California Straw Building AssociationSPRING Conference
April 9, 10 and 11, 2010
Rancho el Chorro Education Center
www.ranchoelchorro.org 2450 Pennington Creek Road San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
FRIDAY April 9…. registration, dinner, socializing and a “show ‘n tell” session of members projects.
SATURDAY April 10….a line-up of informative speakers and presenters on the latest news in building with straw.
And our featured keynote speaker…Carol Venolia
Presents: Building for Life: Bringing Humans Home to Nature
Carol is an architect, writer, lecturer, teacher and contributor to Natural Home Magazine.
SUNDAY April 11-….a membership meeting and more informative presentations.
REGISTER BEFORE MARCH 15 AND SAVE.
Look for details on our website, http://www.strawbuilding.org
or e-mail mbennjr@mac.com or call 209-785-7077
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EcoHouse Tour
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tour the Ecology Center’s environmentally friendly demonstration site. Learn about a
broad-spectrum of simple improvements that can be made to green an urban home.
The tour includes: Berkeley’s first city-permitted wetland / greywater system, solar panels, on-demand and solar water heater, water saving fixtures, natural and recycled building materials, rainwater cistern and water catchment strategies, a living roof garden, organic permaculture gardening, native drought tolerant plants, mushroom cultivation, earthworks raingarden, and more. Note: The interior of the home is not included on the tour. MUST call to register by 4/16/10 for either the 10am or the 1pm tour. Please specify when registering if ASL interpretation is requested, (at least 10 working days in advance).
Time: Tours begin at 10am and at 1pm
Location: EcoHouse, 1305 Hopkins St., (enter via garden entrance on Peralta), Berkeley. Cost: $15 general, $10 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds. Info: 510-548-2220 x239, register@ecologycenter.org, http://ecologycenter.org/
Wheelchair accessible.
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Earth Cafe Course Series Coming Up!
The Earth Cafe course series at the Regenerative Design Institute is starting soon, and
the early bird deadline is March 26 - the fee goes up after that!
If you haven't heard of Earth Cafe, it's a practical, interactive, personalized program that will empower you to build a healthier lifestyle, for yourself and for the planet, through the exploration of food.
The series is led by instructor Carin McKay, a fabulous chef who brings her connection to nature alive throughout the course. We will explore basic techniques of home-scale vegetable gardens, urban homesteading, honey cultivation, caring for goats and chickens, and traditional food culture integrated with modern nutrition. Participants will forage wild foods and harvest directly from the Commonweal Garden - a permaculture demonstration center and small organic farm in Bolinas. There will be cooking demonstrations and hands on skill building – from meal planning to food preparation.
Regenerative Design Institute
P.O. Box 923 | Bolinas, California, 94924 415-868 9681 www.regenerativedesign.org |
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News and Information
Green building trends for Almanac--Tight deadline!
For our Tastes & Trends section in our 2011 edition, we're reporting on the three items, below. I'm interested in any details you can share about any of these developments. I can be reached at StaceyKusterbeck@aol.com or at (631) 425 9760.
-Stacey Kusterbeck/The Old Farmer's Almanac
1) houses whose exterior surface turns dark on sunny days to stay cooler, and clear on dark days to absorb light and heat. Are you aware of this technology? I'm wondering what the house would be made of, and whether it would be clear or mirrored "siding."
2) heat pump exchange systems that bring into the house heat from the
ground during winter and coolness during summer. Are you aware of this type of heating system? I'm not clear on how it would differ from geothermal heat pumps, or if it is the same thing.
3) concrete used to reduce air pollution from traffic. Do you know if this
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Violators of Alameda County Landfill Ban to Face Fines
Landscapers Must “Keep Plant Debris Garbage-Free”
In an effort to meet its voter mandate to divert 75 percent of all waste from landfill by the end of 2010, Alameda County has recently enacted a new law that prohibits the disposal of plant debris in landfills. Those in violation of the ordinance will be subject to citations and fines starting on January 1, 2010.
Read full story at
http://adpsr.org/nor-cal/violators-alameda-county-landfill-ban-face-fines ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Blog postings Haiti
Hello friends and Colleagues, I will be in Haiti on the ground working on reconstruction strategies.
I will be posting observations at http://haiti-patrimoine.org/
Kevin Rowell
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EMPLOYMENT
Natural Building Positions Sought
I am writing in regards to jobs or employment you may have or may know of in
the Bay area. I found your contact on the Natural Building Network website. I recently moved to the Bay area with the inclination of trying to get involved in the natural building sector. My work experience in terms of sustainability, farming, and building is quite varied. I am looking to expand upon my experience and knowledge with the ability to work with like-minded and motivated individuals. Any advice or possible leads to jobs would be much appreciated. I thank you for your time and knowledge if you are willing to dispense. Michael Bartelloni
*NEEDED: residential mechanical engineers*
Those of us working on high-performance home projects often need good, experienced, green- and energy-savvy mechanical engineers. Unfortunately, most of them (you) work exclusively on non-residential projects. If you are such a person or have direct knowledge of such a person, please send me contact information and, if you are so inclined, a few words saying what you know about this person. I would be hugely grateful -- and willing to share the list I compile.
Thanks!
Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch.
ann@designavenues.net Design AVEnues LLC 115 Angelita Avenue ▪ Pacifica, CA 94044 v 650-355-9150 ▪ f 650-359-4257 www.designavenues.net author of Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet |
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