[imc-st.louis] Building Green Communities

[Fitzdon at aol.com]

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




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