Ryan Shelby: Sustainability Designs and Innovations

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. :)

The Pinoleville Pomo Nation has decided to build the yurt style home that was designed and modified by students from E10 and CARES.

Construction is slated to start in July '09 and finish by Sept '09.

LACO Associates is the engineering firm being used to construct the home.

A special thanks goes out to Cindy, Tommy, Yao, Tobias, Yael, and Francesca for all their hard work on this partnership.