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Instructor Profile:
Christopher Sweetnam-Holmes
 We're excited to have Christopher back at Yestermorrow this month to teach Invisible Structures: Strategies Beyond Building Green. This innovative course explores the idea that designing and developing sustainable community is about more than just buildings. The course will examine what economic, legal, contractual, cultural, marketing and communications strategies -- so-called "invisible structures" -- can be combined with sustainable building practices to initiate long term sustainable communities.
Christopher is founder and a partner in EcoCité, a national green development and consulting firm based in Montreal. Christopher believes that social and environmental entrepreneurship can be a powerful way to affect change. This belief has been translated in the development of his EcoLoft, EcoCondo and EcoCité housing concepts, setting the standard for urban housing, with aggressively green, innovatively designed, urban homes. Winner of the McGill University Management Award (2005) and the Berkeley Prize for Architecture, from the University of California at Berkeley (2001), Christopher has been featured in numerous media for his innovative housing ideas. Most recently he was included in "The Great Warming" a major documentary series that aired on the Discovery Channel, and PBS. EcoCité's Abondance Montreal, a 21 unit Net Zero Energy development in Montreal recently won a competition sponsored by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) as part of its Equilibrium Housing Initiative. Christopher has taught at Yestermorrow since 2007.
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Designing and Building a Sustainable Future
July 2009 Newsletter
Fall/Winter Courses Online!
Offering 10 exciting new programs
Yestermorrow's Fall/Winter course catalog (October 2009-April 2010) is on its way to your mailbox, and our new course schedule has been posted online. This season's exciting lineup includes our new Woodworking Intensive curriculum (January 29-April 9) as well as a number of new course offerings, including: Less is More: Designing and Renovating the Smaller Home, Vermont Residential Green Certifications, Natural Design/Build, Urban Regeneration, No-Shop Cabinetry, Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling, and Intro to Vectorworks. In addition to our new courses, we will offer more than 60 of our old favorites. Yestermorrow’s courses are specifically designed to demystify the designing and building processes using hands-on, experiential learning to teach students the art and wisdom of good design and the skill and savvy of enduring craftsmanship as a single, integrated process.
Innovative Homes Tour
Saturday, August 22nd  Don't miss this rare opportunity to view some of the incredible and innovative residential architecture masterpieces of the Mad River Valley. Tour five spectacular homes led by the architects who designed these homes alongside the owners who live in them. This event is part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts which runs August 1-31, 2009. Bus transportation is provided for the day; tour runs from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Call now - 802-496-5545 - to book your seat on the bus because this tour always sells out! Reservations required: $50 fee includes buffet lunch at Yestermorrow and proceeds go to benefit Yestermorrow's scholarship fund.
Class Spotlight:
Art in the English Garden
July 19-27, 2009
 Come explore the history of stone walling and the wonders of rural England. This 10 day course, led by nationally recognized stone mason Thea Alvin, provides the full English garden experience, from studying well-developed gardens and walls to the incomplete one on which participants will be working. The setting is in the rural, southwest English countryside, next to a stone bridge reputed to be 3000 years old, among hills with cairns and burial mounds, sacred circles, and wild ponies. The project, at the country estate where students will stay, includes stair building, stone walling and sculpture-making, and garden path planning and creation. The class will do as much stonework as time allows, and then break out into the wild countryside for fly fishing, moor walking, and exploration of castles, pubs, and local villages (see daily schedule). The estate is a three-hour train ride from London. $2000 tuition includes lodging and all meals. For details and to register online, visit: http://yestermorrow.org/courses/mmbs/english.htm.
Summer Lecture Series
July SpeakersYestermorrow's free Summer Lecture Series is underway and runs through the end of August! Featuring a wide variety of artists, architects, builders and craftspeople engaged in the process of design/build, the lecture series is a great introduction to many of the topics taught in Yestermorrow courses. All talks are held on Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm in Yestermorrow's main studio. In July we will present the following talks:
July 1- Joel Glanzberg- "Patterns: Key to Sustainable Communities"
July 8- Jacob Deva Racusin- "Bridging the Gap: Bringing Together the Worlds of Natural and Green Building"
July 15- John Ringel- "Designing Additions: From Context to Content and Intention to Innovation"
July 22- Matt O'Connell- "Continuous Transformations: Something Old, Something New in Making Next Generation Buildings"
July 29- Dan Reicher- "The Power of Information in a Clean Energy Economy"
To see the full lecture schedule, speaker bios and in-depth lecture descriptions, please visit www.yestermorrow.org/Lecture09.htm.
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