April 2011

On Innovation and Collaboration

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
I recently sat down to read an essay by my friend and colleague, Ginny McGinn, co-director of the Center for Whole Communities. Her writing on leadership and how to create new pathways to collaboration (in the Winter 2010-11 Whole Thinking Journal) touched on something which really resonated with me in thinking about what makes Yestermorrow...

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South Studio Transformation!

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
During a 3-day design and 4-day blitz build session Design/Build Interns under the supervision of Dave Warren completed the final phase of the south studio transformation. The south studio morphed from a difficult, limited working place to a design-school level, multi-purpose room. New convertible drafting table work benches, conceived to...

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What College Students Are Saying About Yestermorrow

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
"When I design something, I always wonder how it can be built." -TheoTheo can't remember a time when he wasn't helping in his dad's shop. He grew up tinkering with bicycles, old cars, and built a kayak when he was fourteen.Now that Theo's studying architecture in college, he longs for more. "I want to explore all the social issues that...

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Making Ladderback Chairs

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Last week our Woodworking Intensive students were hard at work making green ladderback chairs, led by instructor Mark Krawczyk. Not only is Mark a skilled natural builder and permaculture teacher, he also crafts beautiful furniture, functional objects and traditional tools from green wood under his business RivenWoodCrafts up in Burlington...

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