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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Going Green Workshop Series with the Grand House

There is a great series of sustainable building workshops happening this spring at the new Grand House, a strawbale student co-operative in Cambridge. Greg is taking part in various workshops - radiant flooring, claystraw and wattle & daub, and waste water treatment & living machines (all projects we hope to be incorporating in our new strawbale addition, so these workshops are very timely for us!) - and we'll both be there on April 19th, to lead the "urban agriculture" workshop. Here's the full schedule:

Going Green Workshop Series with the Grand House
A sustainable building and lecture series:

A free or low-cost workshop and lecture series on green-building construction and design beginning February 2nd until May 10th 2008. Learn about a variety of green-building techniques and technologies from the experts, including straw-bale construction, renewable energies, eco-home design, rainwater harvesting, plastering, earthen building, solar hot water, and much more!

Space is limited, so please register to reserve your spot.

Download a registration form and email or mail it back to us


Date*
Workshop**
Feb. 9 Solar power workshop
Rescheduled - TBD Radiant flooring: Installation and Theories
Feb. 26 Earth Energy Talk (CREW)
March 8 Green Roof Workshop
March 15 Clay-Straw and Wattle and Daub
March 29 Introduction to Green and Natural Building
April 5 Sustainable and Non-Toxic Materials
April 12 and 13 Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Saving Workshop
April 19 New! Urban Agriculture
April 26 Making Concrete Countertops
May 3 Wastewater treatment and living machines
May 10 Natural Landscaping: Design and Installation
May 17 Cob Building: Freeform Mud/Straw Construction
TBD Inovative Green Insulation: Icynene and Mineral Wool


*Dates are subject to change
**Please click on a title for a description or see below

Date*
Lecture**
March 17

Environmental Symposium
all day@ the School of Architecture

March 27 Introduction to Straw Bale Constructions
April 3 Green Building Design
Resceduled for May LEED for home



Please contact Laird at
ghcoop@gmail.com or 519-721-2014
for more information or to register