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Structures
 Ampeartheater
an earthen seating section for community concerts in West Oakland, CA
 D.I.Y.T.V. (Do-It-Yourself Television)
media liberation and public space reclamation project in West Oakland, CA
 Poet Tree
text literacy and public space reclamation project in West Oakland, CA
 Ghost Town Forever
a photo essay of a community reclaiming its streets and increasing the peace
 Spark Bench
perhaps the first permanent earthen structure to be built in Toronto in over 100 years
 City Repair Addis Ababa
the 1st African chapter of the placemaking movement
 Real Little House on the Prairie
a tiny trailer home that defies dimensions
Potters' Earthship
a house made of used car tires filled with rammed earth in Bancroft, Ontario
Guides
 Timeless Way of Building
a book review of the first volume of Christopher Alexander's seminal Pattern Language series
 Humanure Handbook
a book review of the bioneering guide to the composting of human manure
 GRAB/FOCUS
manifesto for the green anarchist architecture movement
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Designs
 Brown Rock City
desert design for a new neighbourhood with all-ecological infrastructure
 BigTopticon
Plans for a four-storey mud skyscraper for a tribe of circus freaks
 Silo Stove Secret Squat
Using rocket science to create underground earthen architecture
 PaperCob
a wall system with both high insulative qualities and beautiful sculptural potential
 Milkcrete
Megadobe eco-building bricks made from paper, clay, and recycled milk crates
 Hoberman Squat
applying advanced engineering principles in order to create an instant squat
 Revoltron
radical modular designs for a bike carriage, houseboat, & a warehouse
 Kalakuta Cob Cottage
perhaps the first habitable earthen structure to be built in Toronto in over 100 years
Council House
a two-storey five-bedroom passive solar communal home with a hypocaust
Hug House
a single-storey four-bedroom passive solar communal home based on the Earthship model
Quarter Lord Manor
an apartment complex that is greater than the sum of its parts (requires Flash)
Earthpod
a bachelor pad that applies the Earthship model to an urban setting (requires Flash)
Circles
impractical but interesting designs resulting from an early obsession with perfect circles
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Images
 First Earth
a full-length feature documentary about building healthy homes out of the earth
 The Red Pill
a scratch video culture jam, a collage film of 25 movies in 25 minutes
 Kaballah Tarot
an 80-card tarot deck published in the Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume IV
 Lunar Calendar
three different designs for a calendar based on the natural rhythmic cycles of the cosmos
 People's Park
an meme-spreading culture jam for reclaiming the most public of public spaces
 Making Revolutionary Change
a demonstration of anti-consumerist political graffiti on the fetish symbol of consumerism, cash money
 Furrowed Brow
a celebration of our furry physical selves and our beautiful body hair
Words
 B-Files
five essays guaranteed to change the way you look at the world
 (A)narchy 101
a collectively written and edited introduction to an idea that is both so feared, and so loved
 Little Gift
a modern translation of the 14th century Sufi love poet Shams A-Din Hafiz
 Interplanetary Solidarity Movement
a proposal for a galactic non-governmental organization creating peace across planets
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