ACN Monthly Meeting/Potluck, Nov 8: The Green Imperative

The Green Imperative: Green in Asheville? A Community Question

With peak oil and global warming nipping at our heels, newly built green communities are springing up all over Asheville while Americorps is frantically training a volunteer workforce to begin weatherizing older homes. The trend to go green is obvious, and imperative.

Do you really want to build a home that isn't green right now?

From Jillian Wolf, ACN member and seeker of community: “In my own explorations of building community, one aspect I often consider is the buildings themselves. My sense is that the greener the better. So what's out there? What are my options in Asheville? Is going green ever going to be an affordable alternative? These are some of the questions I hope to answer for myself while sharing the dialogue with other members of ACN.”

Join us for the first in a series of explorations on green building options. Clarke Snell will present a building concept,
The Nauhaus: A High Performance, Natural Building System.

The Nauhaus (pronounced “now house”) is a building system born from one simple thought: What would happen if we considered our present climate change crisis as an opportunity to make life better? Our answer has been to develop a "whole systems" building design approach that combines the best of cutting edge modern building science with the advantages of traditional building materials and techniques. Clarke will outline this approach and cover some of the basic concepts that make up the core of “green building” along the way.

Questions welcome!

Speaker bio:
Clarke Snell is the executive director of The Nauhaus Institute (NHI), an organization working toward the creation of a carbon neutral built environment. NHI’s focus is to combine high performance building science with low embodied energy (sometimes called “natural”) building materials, techniques, and strategies. NHI is currently building one of the first houses in the US insulated with hempcrete and perhaps the first hempcrete residence attempting to achieve Passive House certification in the world. Clarke is the author of two books on alternatives to conventional construction, “The Good House Book” and “Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide to Alternative Building Methods”.

4pm - Presentation / 5:30 pm - Potluck
3:15 pm - Newcomers are invited to a short introduction on
Intentional Communities and ACN (Asheville Communities Network).

$5 suggested donation

For more information, contact Marianne at info@ashevillecommunitiesnetwork.com.

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