Issues and education
Learn, teach and especially ask questions.
Make your dream profession a fact by online degrees and valued certifications.
Submitted by jameka on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 08:01.Your Degree (dot)com is a full directory of online degrees, campus learning programs and career certificates from accredited universities, career colleges, and traditional schools. Have a go at your career by digging free information free information on Online Degrees and Career Certificates that will be the boosting factor to your goals. Everyone has a desired profession or aim and keeping that in mind we have a degree or career certificate that can make you reach zenith and fulfill your aim. Fast and flexible courses allow you to complete your degree while you work your current job.
why discuss clothing at the Ecocity Summit?
Submitted by India Flint on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 23:06.why clothing...well for one thing, it's what we will all be enveloped in when meeting at the Summit. fundamentally worn to protect oneself from the elements and (in western societies) for reasons of modesty (yes, even the mini skirt hides something) the maintenance and cleaning of clothing is a huge consumer of time and energy. add that to the imapct the commodity has in the making and it's a fairly substantial bill.
the eco-sustainable fashion discussion, Second Skin, will look at best practice in the field...inviting reader contributions...
Reviving the creative traditions of craft making communities
Submitted by Jinan on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 05:06.Concerns
An alternative paradigm to the current architectural practice that is subject to the global culture of commodification and homogenization.
About a century ago we had several types of Architecture Aesthetically distinct, culturally rooted, using local resources both human and material, functionally suited to the environmental conditions and cultural requisites. There were no institutions for teaching them and people organically learned and collectively responded very well to the needs.
Jinan, Designer, Craft activist, uneducationist
Submitted by Jinan on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 05:06.link with traditional crafts people, design products, interiors with tradtional crafts of india, un educate you and your children
www.kumbham.in
www.re-cognition.org
http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/
K B JINAN
An activist, designer and educationist K B Jinan has been working with traditional artisans in various parts of India. In the process he has been addressing his own de-colonizing and de-schooling process. Born in 1959 in Trichur district of Kerala, he did his Engineering in 1983 and post graduate in product design in 1989 from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
always being green
Submitted by amber on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 00:37.Hi, my name is Amber and I want to thank you for your
efforts to save the environment by massrecycling, way
to go! I am doing my share in massrecycling too! Have
you heard of Dario Busch? Dario Busch 's custom super
homes are “Greener Than Green”! EnergyStar and LEED
“through the roof”! I saw a customsuperhome “Green
Built” house Dario Busch had his crews build in
Missouri (And I think Dario Busch had his crew build
another custom super home in Kansas) that is built
with over 60 TONS of recycled materials (Ask Dario
Busch for details on the custom super homes)! Dario
Di Womersley, Director, The Shaster Foundation
Submitted by Di Womersley on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 15:00.Interesting experience with developing/upgrading a squatter camp using permaculture principles.
building an ecovillage
I run a small NGO in Cape Town dedicated to community development in a holistic way. My project aims to change a squatter camp where about 15,000 people live in dire poverty into a blooming ecovillage. I am passionately South African and believe that Permaculture is an important way to help solve the problem of poverty in this country.
urban upgrading ecocity project in addis ababa Ethiopia
Submitted by Yilak on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 04:36.Prepared by
Yilak Akloweg (Architect-planner)
Tassew Bekele (Economist)
Elsa Sereke (Sociologist)
INTRODUCTION
The site's location:
Yilak Akloweg, Architect/ urban planner, Addis Ababa subcities ecocity project(Ethiopia), currently student at Tsinghua Universi
Submitted by Yilak on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 03:59.i can give research papers on the ecocity project in developing country, Ethiopia
I need to learn practical eco city projects application, methodology etc. Since only i participate on the pysical and socio economic research of the urban upgrading eco. city project in addis ababa , Ethiopia.
My name is Yilak Akloweg from Ethiopia. I am architect/urban planner currently studying at Tsinghua university, Beijing, China ,in international development focusing on Urban environment/development. previously i have many research work and implementation experience on ecocity project and urban renewal studies, which aim to bring a sustainable physical, economical, social development to the urban poor.
I have an internship program in July 2008 as a fulfillment for the masters program, and i want to work on eco city projects in any part of the world.
User Friendly
Submitted by veloman7 on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 18:11.Why are streetcars and trains more acceptable than a bus? They both take you where you want to go but somehow busses do not have the same user feel.
Teaching Sustainable Design
Submitted by msammet on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 18:54.Welcome all EcoCity Summit participants,
My name is Michael Sammet, and I am the program director for the Sustainable Design Program at the University of California, Berkeley Extension in San Francisco. We are co hosting the 2008 World Summit and I am moderating this "Education" dicussion forum.
I hope to use this forum to discuss and share best practices for teaching sustainability and sustainable design. I invite participants to note useful books, or articles, and classroom activities that spur the learning of sustainability.
