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is the co-author of Ecological Design (with Sim
Van der Ryn), which presents a visionary overview of the integration of
ecology with architecture, land-use planning, and product design. He is
a co-founder of Portland-based Sustainable Systems Design, an interdisciplinary
firm that integrates science, art, and design to catalyze sustainable
places and organizations. He was previously research director at Ecotrust,
where his team developed an innovative framework for bioregional sustainability
available at www.conservationeconomy.net.
He holds a doctorate in complex systems from U.C. Berkeley, and has taught
at Berkeley, New College, Naropa Institute, and Antioch University. At
this year's H.0.P.E.S. conference Stuart will address how the design of
cities and towns can be made conducive to all life. He will explore emerging
themes of ecosystem services, biocultural diversity, civic ecology and
bioregional planning using a range of international case studies and theoretical
tools.
is the volunteer executive director of the Cooperative
Resources & Services Project (CRSP), a nonprofit organization that
she founded in 1980. The CRSP is a resource center for small ecological
cooperative communities. She is the founding energy and vision holder
for the main project of CRSP since 1993, the Los
Angeles Eco-Village. The two-block L.A. Eco-Village neighborhood is
a demonstration of the diverse processes of moving toward a sustainable
community in an older built-out blighted central city area. Lois co-authored
and co-edited: Sustainable Cities: Concepts and Strategies for Eco-City
Development (see review on page 13) that won an American Planning Association
Award - L.A. Section. A second book she co-authored and co-edited, Cooperative
Housing Compendium: Resources for Collaborative Living, was published
by the Center for Cooperatives at the University of California at Davis.
She recently received the Sylvia Russell Award for Equality and Justice
in Ecology. Early in her career Lois was employed by the County of Los
Angeles where she helped start an innovative program working with troubled
inner city youth. In the 1970s, she co-founded a nonprofit musical arts
organization which gained national prominence. She holds a BA degree with
a major in Anthropology from California State University at Northridge.
is a licensed architect and co-author of the book Cohousing:
A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves (Ten Speed Press, 1988,
1994), which introduced this European housing model to North America.
Together with her husband Charles Durrett she founded The
Cohousing Company, an architecture and consulting firm in Berkeley.
The Cohousing Company has designed and consulted on dozens of cohousing
communities worldwide and has received national recognition including
a recent segment on the McNeil Lehrer News Hour and articles in The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architecture and many others. The
couple currently lives with their eleven year old daughter in the Doyle
Street Cohousing Community in Emeryville, which they designed. Kathryn
specializes in working with resident groups and developers to build cohousing
communities, providing design, project management and development services.
She also lectures extensively on the topic. In addition, Kathryn has been
project manager for a wide variety of projects, including child care facilities
and multi-family housing. Kathryn's background is primarily with non-profit
housing development; specifically, she has worked with groups of residents
on participatory design projects and supervised resident-built construction.
More than 50 cohousing communities currently exist in the U.S. with approximately
150 groups in various stages of the process.
founded the City
Repair Project in Portland, Oregon in 1996 along with a group of citizen
activists who wanted to see a more community-oriented and ecologically
sustainable society. City Repair began its work with the idea that localization
(of culture, of economy, of decision-making) is a necessary foundation
of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented
places, City Repair plants the seeds for greater neighborhood communication,
community empowerment and local culture. The City Repair Project maintains
an office in Portland, operating with over 15 largely volunteer full-time
and part-time staff, coordinators, and assistants. They receive funding
from private donations and some agencies and foundations.
is head of the nonprofit organization Eco-City
Builders in Berkeley, California which is dedicated to reshaping cities,
towns and villages for long term health of human and natural systems.
"Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of
our cities, agriculture to gardens and the streets, and convenience and
pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit. We visualize a future in which
waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers
are opened for curious children, fish, frogs and dragonflies. We work
to build thriving neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development,
to build whole cities based on human needs and 'access by proximity' rather
than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess,
wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere."
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