[imc-st.louis] Reminder: Building Green Communities 12/5 7pm @ Legacy Books

[ben]

Reminder of upcoming event at Legacy Books.  Digger from STLIMC editor
collective will be present at this discussion.  (P.S. Digger, would you
like to do a write-up of some sort?)

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From:    Fitzdon at aol.com
Date:    Wed, November 14, 2007 6:00 pm
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Black & Green Wednesday

FORUM: Building Green Communities

WHEN:  7 pm, Wednesday December 5, 2007

WHERE: Legacy Books and Café, 5249 Delmar (near Union)

The forum will include:

*  digger, Independent Media Center

*  Tim Montgomery, T M A Architects LLC

*  Lenard Johnson, County Building Products

*  Don Fitz, Green Party of St. Louis [moderator]

Creating a Green community means providing jobs for people of color who
build it and providing homes that are affordable to working and low income
residents.  We need to redefine environmental construction as redesigning
entire communities so people can get to where they need to go without
individuals owning cars.

Adding eco-gadgets to sprawling oversized houses is not Green.

Should individual, above ground homes be a thing of the past?  Is it time
for new homes to be multi-family, co-housing or earth sheltered?

How low can an energy efficient home go?  Half as much energy as the typical
home of today?  A tenth as much energy?  Could we actually build affordable
homes that generate all the heating, cooling and electricity they need in
their neighborhood?  How would we do it?

Sponsored by the Gateway Green Alliance and Universal African Peoples
Organization.  For more information call 314-727-8554 or visit the Greens'
web site:

www.gateway-greens.org

-- 
Ben West
westbywest at riseup.net
http://savetheinternet.org
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