SEGO Center City Hub Eco-architecture Updates!

Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Leaf Landscape) has completed the second generation layout drawings of the natural pool and eco hot tub component of the SEGO Center! Andrew Sadera (Architect Drafter and Designer) and Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs) have also completed the following SEGO Center CAD floors 1 and 2 evolution including seating […]

SEGO Center Update: Table Designs

Here’s a quick update on the SEGO Center City Hub table layout. The images below show a custom table design we will build ourselves and seating for 150 people created by Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs). We are now exploring the possibility of increasing seating to 200. On other updates, Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and […]

Open Source Sustainable Food Systems Update

We’ve been busy with infrastructure design details! Here are the initial layouts and aquaponics and walipini combination designs called aquapinis. The three walipini food production systems we will demonstrate as Phase I of the One Community self-sustainable food production plan are: Walipini Greenhouses: These will be used as traditional soil growing areas to grow things we can’t grow […]

Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

Incorporating vermiculture bins into our composting toilet plans is one way we see of building a compost bin into our human waste disposal plan. Doing this will take composting with worms indoors with a new eco friendly toilet we believe anyone will be able to duplicate. In our opinion, there are more and more people […]

Urban Permaculture for Communities: Re-patterning the Grid

Visionary and eco-architect Mark Lakeman is founder of City Repair, Communitecture Architects, and the Planet Repair Institute. Mark goes against the traditional architecture teachings that humanity and nature are separate. Instead he brings these two concepts together, expressing them in beautiful artform. Modeling the plazas of Mexico and South America, Mark is teaching people the foundations of community […]

Sustainable Building: Straw-bale Eco-Architecture

Featured on Planet Green and “The World’s Greenest Homes” TV show, Kevin Edwards’ 3000 square foot straw-bale constructed home is beautiful, green, more affordable than traditionally built homes, and packed with amazing eco-features. Located in Scottsdale, AZ, this modern straw-bale house includes a saltwater swimming pool, recycled windows, ceiling accents made from recycling the delivery […]

(R)Evolution of the American Dream

The growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement has given us an excellent opportunity to stop and think about where we are, and where we are going. A common statement right now is “end economic slavery” and yet it seems odd to expect the very people who created this situation, and continue to profit from […]