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SWEET!!!  CARES won a $75K seed CITRIS grant to start a CARES center at Berkeley to codesign & build green it & energy systems for Native Nations.

The center will be called Native American Community Assessment for Renewable Energy and Sustainability (Native CARES) and will include Native American partners such as the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Sandia National Laboratories.

Thanks to everyone that's supporting our efforts to helping  communities improve their overall level of sustainability and meet their triple bottom line requirements!

CARES has seen much success since we won the E Team grant in 2007 from NCIIA.  I believe that this grant is a another key step in establishing CARES as a major force in the sustainability arena.
 
 
This year, I spoke at the 2009 Greenbuild Conference in AZ on the panel "OR02: Reviving the Oldest Approach to Sustainable Design - How Cultural Values and a Sense of Place Leads to Green Building Designs"

The panel included myself, David Edmunds from the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), Michelle Baker from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Kimberly TallBear from UC Berkeley.

During our panel we spoke on about the partnership amongst CARES, PPN, and UC Berkeley and how the utilization of  Co-Design methodology lead to the creation of the culturally inspired  housing design adopted by the PPN.

Overall, Greenbuild was an outstanding success!!.  We got an standing ovation at the end of our panel and we made good contacts with representatives form LEED and USGBC.

Currently, we are planning for another panel and paper on the subject of LEED and Native American Nations for the summer as well.

Until then, check out some other comments and blogs about our presentation here and here.
 
 
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Ryan Shelby in the ASMS Class of 2002












While searching the web for new mentions of CARES, I came across a high school project that I did at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science.

The project was about testing the launch angle of a MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle).

Seeing this page brought back so many fond and amazing memories about my time at ASMS. 

ASMS was the best time of my life and it really influenced the person I am today.  I am very thankful for having the opportunity to attend this magnificent school and meet so many great friends!

I had so much fun taking classes, hanging out in the SAC, and waiting on Happy Quarter and Intervis. 
 
 
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The 2009 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo’s program has been announced.

This conference is the largest dedicated to green buildings and their design.  This year the conference will take place in Phoenix, AZ from November 11-13 2009. 

I will be at the conference this year to serve on a panel to discuss the partnership between CARES and the PPN to build cultural inspired, sustainable.  housing.

You can read more about our session here. 

 
 

CARES got two news articles posted on the Mechanical Engineering Department's homepage!!!!

The articles talk about our win at the 2009 Bears Breaking Boundaries (BBB) and the recent Forefront publication of our work with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

Here is a link to the BBB and CITRIS competitions.

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UC Berkeley's Forefront magazine released an article today that describes the work that the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) is doing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

CARES has partnered with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) to co-design culturally inspired, sustainable homes for the PPN. 

The homes resemble a yurt and will utilize grey water capture systems, rainwater capture systems, natural lighting, solar water heaters, PV systems, and geothermal heat pumps. 

The yurt design will also incorporate passive heating and cooling systems such as high thermal mass and solar heating as well.

The construction of the home is set to begin this summer.


 
 

I will be presenting at this conference in a few days.  The full program can be found here.

The focus of the talk will be on The Pinoleville Pomo Nation – UC Berkeley Partnership to Co‐Design Culturally Informed, Sustainable Housing.

 
 

Out of over 400 submissions at the Bears Breaking Boundaries competition, the Pinoleville Pomo Nation project won honorable mention in the Curricular Innovations category and CARES (Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability) was a finalist in the Information Technology category.

We did not win the main prizes, but we made good contacts!!

See everyone again next year at BBB.

 
 

The title says it all!!   The poster session will take place in the atrium of the new CITRIS headquarters building at UC Berkeley.

Here is the link again: http://www.citris-uc.org/events/Big-Ideas-poster2009

Come on out and support CARES!

 
 

I got more good news: 

The Greenbuild 2009 Program Committee informed me today that proposal I wrote with the EPA and PPN: Reviving the Oldest Approach to Sustainable Design: How cultural values and a sense of place lead to green building designs has been accepted.

There were 1300 submitted and our proposal was one of the 112 that got in. 

The proposal talks about the co-design process CARES used to work with the PPN to co-design culturally inspired, sustainable housing.

I write so many of things things that I completely forgot about this one. :)