The Yestermorrow campus is generally brimming with all sorts of folk, but most days an astute observer may notice a genuine dearth of children. Not the case the last week in April when we were blessed with not one, not two, but five child visitors ranging in age from 12-16. The kids were part of a group from New Orleans called Rethink, and were...
Late last April, here at Yestermorrow we took a huge step towards our goal of producing renewable energy on campus with the installation of a 28kW photovoltaic array. It wasn’t just a token demonstration project, this was a statement—seven tracking units each measuring 22 feet wide and 17 feet tall right out in front of our main building on...
Ever wonder where you can see more than half a dozen Yestermorrow class projects all in one place (other than our own campus)? Check out the Common Ground Center in Starksboro, VT. It's a family camp (Camp Common Ground) and a retreat and conference center. About ten years ago they purchased 700 acres and have been transforming it into an...
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 such...
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...
