July 2, 2008
Our community meeting this month was on Eco-Villages and Co-housing and we had a great turnout and really interesting information.
Our guest speakers were:
Lorie Saito of SaitoKai is a straw bale expert from way back. She has been interested in "green" building for almost a decade and was a part of the Riverdale Net Zero Project. She is now involved in setting up a co-housing association in Edmonton with one of the designers, Alan Carpenter from Windsong, BC. To find out more visit www.cohousing.ca.
If you are planning to visit Capital X, you can see Robert and Lorie in the Northlands Green Zone. (Which is in the kidszone area of the midway - I hear they are behind the rides and games) they’ve built a straw bale structure complete with solar power and solar thermal heat.
Shanthu Mano of Carbon Busters. Well, Shanthu wasn't really there, but I did an great impression of her. They are building an eco-village just south of Beaumont that will be amazing, and of course carbon zero. If you are interested in knowing more about the village and how you can be a part of it, contact Shanthu at contact (at) carbonbusters.org (to reduce spam I have spread out the email address, to send a message just replace the (at) with @ and remove the spaces).
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