Community Potluck
Please bring a food offering to share. Please bring your own plates, cups and utensils, and take your recycling home. We are striving to be a leave no trace event!
Climate, Consciousness & the Indigenous Connection
Climate Former chemical engineer Andrew C. Bailey’s uplifting talk takes the form of a 3-act drama. ACT ONE: the global climate crisis, ACT TWO: the challenges we face in resolving the crisis. ACT THREE: a coherent vision of an integrated climate restoration solution that is ready for deployment. www.SacredEarthEnterprises.us CONSCIOUSNESS Join Andrew Cameron Bailey and Connie …
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Crestone Energy Fair…Climate Solutions Now for Seven Generations!
The Crestone Energy Fair will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary on August 16-18, 2019 in downtown Crestone’s Town Park and Little Pearl Park. The Crestone Energy Fair is an annual event highlighting innovative and visionary energy, building, and human relation’s technologies while networking the skill sets and resources of local, regional and global communities who …
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Passive Solar Home and Greenhouse
This passive solar home with conventional wood framing was designed and built by the owner, Justin van Wart, with design & construction management assistance by Paul Shippee. The 11 PV (solar electric) panels on the roof provide 4 Kw of power in a grid-tie system (no batteries). Other main features are an attached solar greenhouse, …
Solar Home and attached Greenhouse
Multi-tech conventional wood-frame solar home, designed and built by owner Susan Reycroft, features grid-tied photovoltaic (solar electric) panels, passive solar windows, solar thermal collectors for domestic hot water and space heating, and an attached solar greenhouse with a fan-driven “climate battery” to store excess heat and moisture under the earth floor for winter nighttime recovery.
Off Grid Innovative Solar Home
Off-grid Solar home designed and built by Architect-owner, Burt Wadman, featuring innovative passive solar architecture, solar thermal collectors (hidden on roof) for domestic hot water. See solar electric (photovoltaic) panels ground-mounted to the right of the house. Batteries are in the basement. See this off-grid solar home on the Home Tour, Saturday morning, August 17, …
Haidakhandi Universal Ashram 12 – 4 PM Temple is strawbale with adobe floors, also Earthship architecture
Open House 12 – 4 PM A wonderful display of alternative and energy-efficient building the Ashram gift shop and kitchen is an earthship design and the temple is A beautiful Strawbale and has Adobe floors.
Passive Solar, rammed earth walls, straw bale walls on second floor, hot water, heat and temperature modulation
Passive solar home designed and built by Paul Shippee features rammed earth walls, straw bale walls on second floor, seven solar thermal panels on the roof for domestic hot water and radiant floor space heating, interior rammed earth walls for thermal mass heat storage and temperature modulation. See this house on the Solar Home Tour, …
Roof Top Solar, Solar thermal collectors for heat and hot water and Photovoltaic panels
Rooftop Solar! -Off-grid Solar home designed and built by Ed Sbabaro featuring passive solar architecture, solar thermal collectors for radiant floor heating and domestic hot water, AND solar electric (photovoltaic) panels -all on the roof. See this off-grid solar home on the Home Tour, Saturday morning, August 17, 2019.