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WASI featured in an article in El Ciudadano, a popular alternative newspaper in Chile.

Full Content: http://www.elciudadano.cl/2012/05/07/52242/wasi-mujeres-constructoras-de-un-mundo-perdurable/

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4-Month Women’s Natural Building Apprenticeship:
Near Asheville, North Carolina, June 3-September 28

Women of the Americas Sustainability Initiative (WASI) is hosting a 4-month, hands-on natural building apprenticeship from June 3-September 28 that brings together a close-knit team of women to live, learn, and build with Liz Johndrow as lead builder, and her assistants, veteran natural builders and community members. The site is at Highland Lake Cove, near Asheville, North Carolina.
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3-Month Women’s Natural Building Apprenticeship in Hawaii:
OCEAN FRONT on the Island of Molokai, September 15-December 15, 2012

Kleiwerks International’s Women of the Americas Sustainability Initiative (WASI) is hosting a 3-Month Women’s Natural Building Apprenticeship that brings together a group of native Hawaiian and off island women to live, learn and build with a team of natural building business owners, industry experts, architects, activists, and local Molokai community members. The building project will be a prototype house for island residents, incorporating bamboo and earthen building technologies. Participating apprentices will learn how to build with natural materials, construct a house from start-to-finish that will be used as a community commons, develop leadership skills by facilitating local groups, engage in documentation and multimedia strategies to share with larger audiences, and gain understanding of how one community is facing issues of ‘development’.

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10-Week Women’s Earthbag Dome Building Apprenticeship in Canada
Lillooet, British Columbia, July 28-October 6, 2012

Kleiwerks International’s Women of the Americas Sustainability Initiative (WASI) is hosting a 10-week, hands-on natural building Apprenticeship that brings together a group of women apprentices with an experienced team of earthbag builders and native St’at’imc community members. Their project is to construct a Healing & Cultural Arts Centre near Lillooet, BC. This training immersion provides participants with the opportunity to learn construction while building a dome from start to finish, develop leadership skills through facilitating local groups, work side-by-side with a community that is creating culturally appropriate local solutions, and document the story to share with wider audiences.

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Kleiwerks International director co-leads first natural building workshop in country

Permakültür buluşmasının ve ekolojik mimari atölyesinin harmanlandığı haber.

This is one of the most read, mainstream newspapers of Turkey. This article was published in 2011 following the first natural building training in Turkey. Janell Kapoor, director of Kleiwerks International, co-led the event with Penny Livingston and Filiz Telek. It was hosted by Bayramiç Yeniköy Ida Mountains Ecological Life and Seed Association. Yeni Köy is an initiative that is creating a self-sustaining village based on permaculture philosophy and design. Participants included 60 architects, engineers, artists, students and other enthusiasts.

Yeniköy went on to host the first National Permaculture Convergence of Turkey with 200 attendees. The local municipality was so inspired, they applied to be a “Slow City.” Seed-saving networks have strengthened and the natural building movement in Turkey continues to grow in numbers.

Janell and Penny have been invited to teach again, May 12-19, 2012. Several seats have been reserved for non-Turks. Contact ekomimari2012@gmail.comif you would like to attend.

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/pazar/18111208.asp

Origins of Kleiwerks International featuring friends, partnerships, projects and the works of alumni  from around the globe. Narrated by Janell Kapoor with music by Julieta Gonzalez Iwanow & Friends in El Bolson. Stay tuned for Part II!

First Earth is a movie about: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture. It features Derrick Jensen, Daniel Quinn, James Howard Kunstler, and Kleiwerks International’s founder, Janell Kapoor. Janell discusses the international natural building movement through her firsthand experience working in Thailand. She describes the simplicity of solutions being put into practice by coalitions of farmer’s organizations, poor people’s networks, activist media, universities, and every day people. An inspiring story that is spreading like wildfire…

This document was prepared by SWCA Environmental Consultants and explores environmental impacts of construction practices.

“Introduction
This information has been prepared in response to a request from Kleiwerks International for data regarding the energy, greenhouse gas (GHG), and other environmental impacts of current and future global construction practices. As Kleiwerks’ main focus is currently in the developing world, developing world data have been cited separately, where possible. In some cases, data were only available for particular nations or regions within the developed world; such data are identified as such.

The document is divided into two sections. The first presents the data as much as possible in a way which lends itself to clear, simple, striking communication. The second is a compilation of the information used as the basis behind the first section, with references.”

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