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Voyage of the Rhubarb

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Emily’s Project Blog: Gethsemane Garden, True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden, and more!

Off the grid in Haiti... for real

by Hill Pierce, guest blogger

Composting toilet design for Ecole Baptiste Bon Berger (Pele School). Click the image to download a full PDF.

Hello UHPaP!
I am writing at the request of Dave Hampton who I left in Port au Prince just over a month ago to continue fighting the good fight. The Barbancourt-fueled discussions about the role of architecture, sustainability and international aid that were begun there have consumed me since. Back home in Seattle, learning how to be an architect and spoiling a couple of urban chickens seems a long way from the center of the action.

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Urban Habitat... Port-au-Prince?

by Dave Hampton

Greetings from Haiti!

So just what DOES it take to establish an Urban Habitat [insert city here] chapter?

Past-president Mike Repkin has already done it in Bahamas with Urban Habitat Nassau, so, I think it’s only fitting the current President-at-Large go ahead and declare a (so-far one-man) provisional Urban Habitat Port-au-Prince (UHPaP)!

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