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.

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.