CASE STUDY: ECO HOUSE PROJECT, A DEMONSTRATION IN SUSTAINABLE LIVING
ECO HOUSE- A DEMONSTRATION HOME AND GARDEN IN SUSTAINABLE LIVING
In 2000, I had the opportunity to lead Eco House’s original education and community initiatives and collaborate with its founder, Karl Linn. I co-created the energy efficiency and sustainable living design workshops and community garden workshops based in Permaculture principles.
CHALLENGE:
How might we help The Berkeley Eco House Project utilize limited resources to explore, design and implement viable, innovative community volunteer integration & education models for sustainable living and demonstration for a circular economy?
SOLUTION:
In order to organize one of the first Sustainable Community Education Models, we invited a number of external professionals to work together to plan the curriculum.
Phase one included Exploration of Topics, Phase two focused on investigative programming opportunities, phase three for design doing where we began an outline of high level strategies. Phase 4 was implementation
I was responsible for the planning and execution of Designing & Implementing the Community Education program.
IMPACT:
The community led initiative became an example for restoring ecological systems and building healthy, stable communities.
Eco House became a program of the Ecology Center, and after almost two decades still a popular demonstration site for the Ecology Center’s many classes and workshops on sustainable living techniques.
Eco House demonstrates ecological ways of living that are accessible and affordable to people of all ages, ethnic/racial backgrounds, and income levels.
