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5.22.08

Submitted by GCBL staff on May 22, 2008 - 2:40pm.
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  • see third bullet point for descriptionCameron Sinclair told last night’s MOCA Cleveland Talalay Series that he launched Architecture for Humanity to be a virtual, viral network responding to natural disaster around the world with thoughtful housing solutions. With only five full-time staff, Sinclair relies on an army of 5,000 volunteers—architects who organize local chapters around the globe and then move nimbly into the field whilst forming relationships with local residents before they design and build homes, community centers, soccer fields— whatever is most needed to restore the community—from Zimbabwe to Biloxi. Whenever possible they use existing plans, local materials and off-the-grid technology. Their AFH Rangoon chapter has already raised $30,000 and is gearing up to face the aftermath of the Myanmar typhoon. Their motto is ‘design like you give a damn’.
  • The city of Toledo is investing in green energy. Its new Bay View cogeneration plant will burn methane piped in from a sanitary landfill to provide power to the city’s waste water treatment plant. The biogas, which is currently being flared into the atmosphere, will provide 4.5 mega watts for water treatment and provide electricity to the landfill and the new Veteran’s Skyline Memorial Bridge lighting. Read more.
  • They grow up so fast. This season’s peregrine falcon chicks are leaving their nestbox and walking around the ledge on the 13th floor of Terminal Tower. Falcons are cliff-dwellers and are adapted to high places, so the chicks instinctively know how to avoid falling over the edge. Pretty soon they’ll be fledging, that is, learning to fly. Get up to the minute views with Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s FalconCam here.