July 2009

Dan Reicher Lecture Review

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Dan Reicher, the director of Energy and Climate Initiatives at Google, spoke last night at Yestermorrow to an "overflow crowd of summer program students, area professionals and interested public," as part of the free summer lecture series. He previewed an array of Google sponsored R...

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Art in the English Garden

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Despite some epic rain (clearly Vermont is not the only place experiencing an extremely wet summer), our student in the Art in the English Garden course with instructor Thea Alvin had a wonderful time and pulled off an amazing project while also visiting some amazing gardens, seeing the local sites, and enjoing tea and scones! Full...

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Tonight! Dan Reicher from Google at Yestermorrow

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Dan Reicher, Director of Energy and Climate Initiatives at Google, former Assistant Secretary of Energy, and Obama Transition Team member will be at Yestermorrow tonight at 7pm to talk about the current state of play in energy and climate technology, policy and investment. He will discuss Google's increasing focus in the energy world and the...

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John Ringel Lecture 7/15 online

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Thoughts on Designing Additions:From Context to Content and Intention to InventionTopic Summary:An “addition” attempts to transform an “existing condition”--with its unique history---into a new configuration for the present owner’s future aspirations. The Design has to account for the existing context with all its foibles, implications and...

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Forest Management on Campus

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Those of you who've visited Yestermorrow's campus know that one of the things we have an abundance of here are trees. Of our 38-acre campus, about 22 acres are in woodland. When Yestermorrow purchased the property in 1990, the hillside had been previously logged, and had grown back in a mixture of pine, hemlock and some mixed hardwoods at...

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Yestermorrow is looking for a cob building project

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Yestermorrow is looking for a community client for our upcoming Introduction to Cob Building course September 6-12th. Cob is a combination of clay sediment, sand, and straw mixed together with water and hand formed into walls to create an affordable, safe and ecologically sound method of construction. This 6-day Yestermorrow course is...

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New video! Lecture by Jacob Deva Racusin

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Check out the 7/8 summer lecture by Jacob Deva Racusin on Bridging the Gap: Bringing Together the Worlds of Natural and Green Building at http://blip.tv/file/2394709. He discusses how the modern natural building movement has been growing slowly but steadily for decades across the globe, yet much misunderstanding still remains about its form...

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A few summer shots

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
We've posted a few new photo albums on our Picasa site from summer classes and just neat happenings around campus- check it out!

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Summer Lecture Series video online

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
We're thrilled to have our summer lecture series video online now thanks to volunteer Cornelius Murphy! We'll be posting the presentations weekly on the new channel at www.yestermorrow.blip.tv. Check it out! You can also subscribe via RSS feed or iTunes to get notification of new videos as they're posted.Click here for the first lecture...

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