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Green Homes
March 7, 2022 Twenty years ago, living in ways that protect the environment and conserve for future generations was called a “lifestyle choice.” Times have changed. Today, knowing the cause-and-effect of lifestyle on global climate change, living in ways that protect the environment and conserve for future generations is a moral imperative. It is the right…
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Green New Deal Superstudio Submission
July 16, 2021 We have submitted the Greenway idea and illustrations of it to the Green New Deal Superstudio, a national initiative by the Landscape Architecture Foundation to encourage designs to implement the goals of the Green New Deal. Our submission is in visual form above, or you can download a higher-res PDF here. Over…
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Greenway
Greenway (Animated by Lily Ericsson) There is a world in which humans integrate into the water-nutrient cycle. Welcome to Greenway, an achievable, sustainable vision from Earle Barnhart and Hilde Maingay. Greenway is a vision of an ecological neighborhood, where basic needs – food, water, shelter, transport, communications – are provided in ecologically sustainable ways with…
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The First EcoDrum on Cape Cod!
The Green Center endorses the EcoDrum as an ideal method of recovering and recycling waste nutrients on Cape Cod.
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Green Classroom Curriculum
Green Classroom Curriculum January 8, 2019 Due to renewed interest in science-based learning for children, we’re making available a gardening curriculum published by the New Alchemy Institute in 1988. The Green Classroom is a tested, convenient way for teachers to provide garden-focused knowledge to today’s students, with practical benefits in a climate-challenged world. Developed by…
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Green Center
The Falmouth Wind Project Appeal November 20, 2018 In June 2017, Judge Cornelius Moriary of the Barnstable Superior Court shut down Falmouth’s two 1.65 MW wind turbines. Since then, The Green Center —working with a small group of Falmouth residents— attempted to restore the turbines to operation by appealing the decision. The Town of Falmouth would…
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We made it to Separett’s newsletter!
In our never-ending search for the best eco-toilets, we studied the Separett eco-toilets developed in Sweden. Separett specializes in urine-diverting toilets, and modular compost bins instead of a single large container. We discovered that one new model, a urine-diverting composting toilet, had not been brought to the US yet. So, we imported two of them…
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Pick your “ick”
The following letter to the editor by Hilde Maingay was written in response to an editorial in The Falmouth Enterprise criticizing the “ick” factor of eco-toilets. The same paper published the letter on March 13, 2015. The alarm bells of the climate (and environmental) crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and…
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Climate Change
In her book This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein suggests that a survivable endgame for our society depends on “a realizable, if distant, vision” of a better and more sustainable future. “This means laying out a vision of the world that competes directly with today’s vision, one that resonates with the majority of people on the…