How to care for the Earth

How can humans grow and produce food in a way that cares for the earth?

Edible Schoolyards

5 people can grow enough food to feed 150 people…

Support Local Farmers

Grow soil

How can humans make buildings and homes in ways that care for the earth?

Straw Bale Homes

Adobe & Rammed Earth Homes

Earth Ships

Green Roofs

How can humans create and use different forms of transportation to make the urban biome more accessible

and ecological?

The city is way better on a bike…

Trains save time, money, space and resources

Anywhere is walking distance, if you have the time…

How can humans conserve energy and resources, like water and soil?

There is no such thing as “away”

Everything has more than one use

Repurpose

Rain water systems

Grey water systems

WATER:Slow it, spread it, sink it, save it

Urban Swales

How can humans make the urban biomes function like all the other biomes on the planet?

What would nature do, right here, right now?

• How would nature build a house?• How would nature make a city?• How would nature design a computer?• How would nature design a school?• How does nature turn waste into resource?• How does nature grow food?• How can humans mimic nature’s patterns?

All the world’s problems have already been solved, if we know where and how to look.

Get your hands dirty, make mistakes, learn from doing…