Wednesday, February 16, 2011

WorldCafe: HOUSING

Participants???

EXCERPT: Opportunities

· Little units

· Multi-Family housing (co-housing)

· Recycled building materials

· Legalize hemp

· Nauhouse off Brevard Road

· Hempcrete (Broadway)

· Encourage hempcrete etc. industry

· Municipal buildings to become LEED certified


CHAS’S NOTE: This group has not yet come to any conclusion about what ideas and/or projects might well take priority, nor were any next steps included in the notes. Will members of the original group – or any others for whom housing issues are a passion – offer input on priorities and next steps?

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COMPLETE NOTES

WITH EXPENSIVE FUEL?
Cold Houses

OPPORTUNITIES?
Little units
Multi-Family housing (co-housing)
Recycled building materials
Legalize hemp
Nauhouse off Brevard Road
Hempcrete (Broadway)
Encourage hempcrete etc. industry
Municipal buildings to become LEED certified

[editor's note: How the following related to the questions is obscure]

Building community

Less stress

Car pools

Helping each other

Commons

Child care in neighborhoods

Integrate needs

Creativity

New entertainment

Greenways

Spread knowledge re local resources

Lawyer volunteers

Lobby

Autoclave Airated Concrete (AAC) Blocks: high R value

AAC block plant in Asheville/ there is a plant in GA

Kudzu [editor: possible building material ala hemp?]

Civil disobedience against housing authority

Webpage about local resources

Zoning codes: change the law Shuler? Fisher? Bothwell

Start locally to convince lawmakers that present building system is too costly and too toxic.

Celo Solar Panel Company

Solar thermal (too expensive?)

Geo thermal at UNCA and WWC

Creative Living Systems with houses

Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!

Circular thinking rather than linear, moving away from hierarchical structure, ie., educating lawmakers about hemp, etc.

Recycle old drywall, waste management

Involve an Association of Builders

Link with land use people

2% development tax for greenways, etc.

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