[Sdpg] BOOK /Slide Show TOUR SEPT 21 -27 2004 Building Without Borders Book /Joseph Kennedy CA
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson
lakinroe at silcom.com
Fri Sep 10 00:35:09 PDT 2004
BOOK TOUR/Slide Show SEPT 21 -27 2004 Building Without Borders Book Joseph
Kennedy
Sept 21 Tues Santa Cruz- 7:30pm Louden Nelson Center 301 Center St. at
Laurel St 420-6177 $5 donation Contact Vince Pastori 831/763-3848
permasc at sasquatch.com
Sept 22 Wed San Luis Obispo 7pm Ludwig community center ( Mill and Santa
Rosa (hwy 1) in SLO) contact Mickel gouldmund at hotmail.com
Sept 23 Thurs Santa Barbara 7pm Sola House 312 E Sola St $3 donation
contact SB Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.com sbpcnet at silcom.com,
805-962-1555
Sept 24 Fri 5pm Meiners Oak Thurs Oct 30 5pm Dinner with Joe K at the
Farmer and the Cook (near Ojai) 339 W El Roblars 805-640-9608 (reservations)
Sept 24 Fri Meiners Oak (near Ojai) Oak Grove School contact 7pm 220 W.
Lomita Ave, contact Robin (805) 646-8236 X 104 robingodfrey at oakgroveschool.com
Sept 26 Sun Los Angeles 7:30 pm, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004 (1
block east of Vermont just south of 1st St). Fee: $10 (sliding scale ok).
Contact Lauren Segal 818-516-6959.
Sept 27 Mon West Los Angeles location/time to be confirmed contact (Lauren
Segal) LA NextAid www.nextaid.org contact at nextaid.org 818-516-6959.for
details
Oct8 ? Berkeley Kat details to be finalized contact Katherine Steele
<kat at steelemoon.com>
Tour Organizer Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org
sbpcnet at silcom.com 805-962-2571
Cosponsors South Coast Permaculture Guild, Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild,
Oak Grove School, Sustainable Building Council SLO, CRSP/Institute for
Urban Ecovillages in association with L.A. Eco-Village, L.A. Permaculture
Guild, and the Permaculture Institute of Southern California, LA Next Aid,
Urban Permaculture Guild Oakland
.
BOOK SIGNING & SLIDE SHOW
with Joseph Kennedy, author of
Building Without Borders
Shelter is a human right, yet billions are homeless or living in inadequate
conditions due to population pressure, war, or environmental disaster. The
housing crisis facing humanity is widely acknowledged, yet few solutions
have thus far succeeded in addressing it.
Join Joseph F. Kennedy, co-author and editor of the newly published book,
Building Without Borders, Sustainable Construction for the Global Village,
for a slide show and talk describing the role of sustainable building in
solving this world shelter crisis. Truly sustainable construction supports
human dignity, while minimizing negative impacts on the natural
environment. The contributing authors to the book, from many different
countries and academic backgrounds, describe such a way of building --- one
based on vernacular tradition, the appropriate use of materials, and use of
evolving hybrid building practices that link the wisdom of the past with
modern technology. The book travels from Africa and Latin America, to
India, China, Thailand, Poland and the U.S. Southwest. Profusely
illustrated with photographs of real projects around the world, it includes
case studies, technical information and a valuable Resource section.
Joseph F. Kennedy is an architect, designer, builder, writer, artist and
educator. Working with pioneers in the field, he has been at the forefront
of ecological design and construction for the past fifteen years.
Kennedy is cofounder and former director of Builders Without Borders,
(www.builderswithoutborders.org), an international network of ecological
builders dedicated to serving the underhoused of the world, with projects
to create affordable housing with sustainable and local materials. He
received degrees in Architecture from UC Berkeley and the California
Institute of Architecture. He teaches ecological design and natural
building at New College in Santa Rosa, California(www.newcollege.edu), and
co-authored and edited The Art of Natural Building. He has recently formed
the social profit organization Village Renaissance to further study and
disseminate these ideas.
BELOW is short writeup about one part of the tour talk called Village
Renaissance along with Book tour for Building Without Borders
THE VILLAGE: THE RENAISSANCE OF A TIMELESS WAY OF LIVING Joseph Kennedy
The Village is a book that will address a glaring global dwelling crisis.
We are living in a world where a large proportion of the world’s population
now lives in slums or soulless urban or suburban “communities. A
two-hundred year spree of resource use has encouraged ecologically
unsustainable development that utilizes energy-intensive infrastructure and
long-distance transportation to serve all our needs. The dramatic shift
from village to city in this relatively recent past has wrought untold
havoc on societies and ecosystems around the world. While existing
traditional ways of dwelling continue to be abandoned for a false hope of
“modern” life, so-called “development” strategies actively destroy
community bonds that could empower groups of people to solve their social,
ecological and economic problems themselves. Few solutions have been
offered that can truly address this dire state of affairs. However, while
the global village is under attack, there is yet reason for hope.
The village once supported the needs of most human beings. Villages were
largely self-sufficient communities that met our requirements for social
interaction, physical protection, food, and culture, while relying on local
skills and resources. Yet industrialization and various economic and
political trends led to their decline. It has become increasingly clear
that our current way of life is susceptible to disruption and is untenable
for all but the wealthy few who can afford the ecological and economic
costs of living in a world increasingly dominated by fossil fuels and the
dwelling patterns that result. As documented by Richard Heinberg and
others, the anticipated exhaustion of petroleum resources in our lifetimes
will likely force localization upon us. As dwellers on this planet, we must
be prepared for this inevitable reality.
In searching for solutions to this looming crisis, I believe that the
village model is still vital, and I feel that it can be revived to address
the realities of rampant suburbanization, the proliferation of slums and
the isolation of many rural communities. I believe it is time to create a
“village renaissance” to enable all the world’s people to live decent,
productive, ecologically sustainable, healthful, spiritually uplifting
lives thus, the need for this book. Fusing the best of the new onto the
“rootstock” of traditional settlement patterns, new villages are not simply
a replication of an ancient model. To begin with, they are often urban and
are created within a variety of contexts. Such communities are
characterized by a “human scale” that promotes social interaction and
reliance on local resources for construction, food production, and meeting
other basic human needs. Whether they’re called cohousing, intentional
communities, neighborhoods, traditional villages, the New Urbanism, or
ecovillages, efforts that are scaled to human needs and are bioregionally
based will play a greater role if we are to make it through the coming
decades.
The Village describes the history of village living, its essential
features, the reasons for its decline as a means of dwelling, and how it is
currently being revived as a viable alternative to urban slums, soulless
suburbia, and untenable rural isolation. This book project is an effort to
describe the best contemporary practices to inform the practical models
that will need to be built at a large scale if we are to avert the social
and ecological catastrophe that is well underway. It explores the village
as an ethos a way of being in the world that can counter the increasing
speed, violence, and despair that is prevalent in so many cultures today.
Finally, it lights a beacon of hope that we can all live in peace,
prosperity, and sustainability together.
APPLICANT ORGANIZATION:
VILLAGE RENAISSANCE
I am proposing The Village through Village Renaissance as this
newly-founded nonprofit organization’s initial vision-defining document.
Village Renaissance is a social profit network that supports the creation
of desirable, affordable communities using local materials and skills. It
was founded and is currently directed by Joseph F. Kennedy. Through
consultation, research, and prototype development, Village Renaissance will
serve the needs of a global market for information on how to build
holistic, sustainable, and replicable small-scale communities, especially
communities in areas of the greatest need.
Such communities would:
§ Utilize local materials, such as earth, stone, straw, and wood, as
primary building materials in ecologically sensitive and esthetically
acceptable ways;
§ Be created through a teacher-training and community-empowering process;
§ Be robust, desirable, and easy to build and maintain;
§ Reflect local culture and mores;
§ Be easily replicable;
§ Integrate water catchment, energy production, food production, waste
treatment, and local enterprise.
Village Renaissance is a project of the Heydendahl Foundation, which
supports international programs that promote sustainable living, world
peace, intercontinental relations, spiritual and ecological awareness, and
organizational development through the creative arts.
Village Renaissance is a research and development project that has been
created in response to the lack of comprehensive, up-to-date, coordinated
information on the burgeoning village movement. Many experts feel that
self-sustaining communities, both rural and urban, are our society’s best
chance to provide decent housing for billions of people while taking
pressure off our overburdened ecosystems.
END
THE VILLAGE: THE RENAISSANCE OF A TIMELESS WAY OF LIVING Joseph Kennedy
The Village is a book that will address a glaring global dwelling crisis.
We are living in a world where a large proportion of the world’s population
now lives in slums or soulless urban or suburban “communities. A
two-hundred year spree of resource use has encouraged ecologically
unsustainable development that utilizes energy-intensive infrastructure and
long-distance transportation to serve all our needs. The dramatic shift
from village to city in this relatively recent past has wrought untold
havoc on societies and ecosystems around the world. While existing
traditional ways of dwelling continue to be abandoned for a false hope of
“modern” life, so-called “development” strategies actively destroy
community bonds that could empower groups of people to solve their social,
ecological and economic problems themselves. Few solutions have been
offered that can truly address this dire state of affairs. However, while
the global village is under attack, there is yet reason for hope.
The village once supported the needs of most human beings. Villages were
largely self-sufficient communities that met our requirements for social
interaction, physical protection, food, and culture, while relying on local
skills and resources. Yet industrialization and various economic and
political trends led to their decline. It has become increasingly clear
that our current way of life is susceptible to disruption and is untenable
for all but the wealthy few who can afford the ecological and economic
costs of living in a world increasingly dominated by fossil fuels and the
dwelling patterns that result. As documented by Richard Heinberg and
others, the anticipated exhaustion of petroleum resources in our lifetimes
will likely force localization upon us. As dwellers on this planet, we must
be prepared for this inevitable reality.
In searching for solutions to this looming crisis, I believe that the
village model is still vital, and I feel that it can be revived to address
the realities of rampant suburbanization, the proliferation of slums and
the isolation of many rural communities. I believe it is time to create a
“village renaissance” to enable all the world’s people to live decent,
productive, ecologically sustainable, healthful, spiritually uplifting
lives thus, the need for this book. Fusing the best of the new onto the
“rootstock” of traditional settlement patterns, new villages are not simply
a replication of an ancient model. To begin with, they are often urban and
are created within a variety of contexts. Such communities are
characterized by a “human scale” that promotes social interaction and
reliance on local resources for construction, food production, and meeting
other basic human needs. Whether they’re called cohousing, intentional
communities, neighborhoods, traditional villages, the New Urbanism, or
ecovillages, efforts that are scaled to human needs and are bioregionally
based will play a greater role if we are to make it through the coming
decades.
The Village describes the history of village living, its essential
features, the reasons for its decline as a means of dwelling, and how it is
currently being revived as a viable alternative to urban slums, soulless
suburbia, and untenable rural isolation. This book project is an effort to
describe the best contemporary practices to inform the practical models
that will need to be built at a large scale if we are to avert the social
and ecological catastrophe that is well underway. It explores the village
as an ethos a way of being in the world that can counter the increasing
speed, violence, and despair that is prevalent in so many cultures today.
Finally, it lights a beacon of hope that we can all live in peace,
prosperity, and sustainability together.
APPLICANT ORGANIZATION:
VILLAGE RENAISSANCE
I am proposing The Village through Village Renaissance as this
newly-founded nonprofit organization’s initial vision-defining document.
Village Renaissance is a social profit network that supports the creation
of desirable, affordable communities using local materials and skills. It
was founded and is currently directed by Joseph F. Kennedy. Through
consultation, research, and prototype development, Village Renaissance will
serve the needs of a global market for information on how to build
holistic, sustainable, and replicable small-scale communities, especially
communities in areas of the greatest need.
Tour Organizer Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org
sbpcnet at silcom.com 805-962-2571
Cosponsors South Coast Permaculture Guild, Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild,
Oak Grove School, Sustainable Building Council SLO, CRSP/Institute for
Urban Ecovillages in association with L.A. Eco-Village, L.A. Permaculture
Guild, and the Permaculture Institute of Southern California, LA Next Aid,
Urban Permaculture Guild Oakland
.
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