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Sustainable Home Economics
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203 West 107th Street
For the past three years, a small room in the crowded apartment of Joe Friendly, a veteran independent video maker - currently producer of Truth for a Change on Manhattan Neighborhood Network - and some additional shared space has served as Information Habitat's home, now housing a Local Area Network with high speed Internet access connecting up to six Windows-based computers. The compact space, combined with limited financial resources has led to an intense concentration on web site development, with a focus on peace and nonviolence and on development of online curricula relating to information ecology.
information-habitat.net/projects/203w107.htm
sustainable home economics
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New York, NY
2001.07-
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23 Bushwick Avenue
Lived as temporary house guest; served as personal assistant to Geraldine Miller with a focus on domestic responsibilities; co-designed a landscaped circular Mother Garden with paths and borders using on-site bricks, rocks and wood; established compost piles; enhanced soil restoration with extensive addition of leaf mold from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; designed a community biodiversity initiative; monitored home improvements; created flower beds around street trees.
information-habitat.net/projects/23-bush.htm
biodiversity,
document storage,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable home economics,
urban gardening,
women
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Brooklyn, NY
2001.04-2001.07
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26 Bushwick Avenue
The name Casa Color captures the theme of the small two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn's Williamsburg-Greenpoint district, occupied by Information Habitat, its founder, and his newly-wed wife - an exceptional artist, film and video maker - and where major development of the Light and Colour Cubes took place.
information-habitat.net/projects/26-bush.htm
art,
document storage,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
law and the courts,
light and colour,
sustainable home economics
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Brooklyn, NY
1998.06-2001.04
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6th Session, Commission on Sustainable Development
Active participant; developed and circulated proposal, in conjunction with the Information Ecology and Freshwater Caucuses, on holistic approaches to freshwater management focusing on the key role of access to information and the use of modern information and communications technology in sustainable strategies for freshwater resources; organized Ad Hoc Sustainable Kitchen Caucus and provided simple lunches for CSD participants.
information-habitat.net/projects/csd-6.htm
access to information,
diet,
freshwater,
information ecology,
public participation,
sustainable development,
sustainable home economics,
un economic and social council,
united nations
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New York, NY
1998.04-1998.05
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Ad Hoc Sustainable Kitchen Caucus & Collective
Convened and managed an Ad Hoc Caucus of the CSD/NGO Steering Committee that provided inexpensive, healthy lunches - with a selection of breads, olives, natural spreads and salads - for NGO participants during the 6th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
information-habitat.net/projects/ahskcc.htm
diet,
health,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
sustainable home economics
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New York, NY
1998.04-1998.05
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333 East 45th Street
For three years, 333 East 45th Street, New York, NY served as the home for Information Habitat, its small Local Area Network and its founder. Housed in the closest apartment building to the Delegates Entrance of the United Nations, 333 East 45th provided extremely convenient access to United Nations headquarters, and to nearby office buildings of the UN Secretariat and UN specialized agencies, making it easy to print and reproduce documents at very short notice and to make use of Information Habitat's equipment in UN HQ and UN offices as needed.
information-habitat.net/projects/333e45.htm
diet,
document storage,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable home economics
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New York, NY
1995.06-1998.05
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801 Homestead Street
Undertook major renovation of a dilapidated 1877 frame house and established an organic garden on the 1/3 acre estate that had been created by purchasing two adjacent lots. Removed plaster and lathe interior walls; weather-proofed house with storm windows, insulation and caulking; re-painted interior of the house; installed new wiring, etc.
Removed large quantities of trash and debris from the garden - much of which was buried in the garden - and set about restoring the garden, adding compost heaps and collecting many, many bags of leaves each fall to create a large collection of leaf mold to enhance the condition of the garden.
801 Homestead also served as an information hub - initially for a number of community-based organizations, including the Baltimore Area Recycling Coalition and the Baltimore Environmental Center, and subsequently for the US Citizens Network for UNCED and the International Synergy Institute, and was the original home of Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
information-habitat.net/projects/801-home.htm
biological diversity,
diet,
ecological design,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
home ownership,
recycling,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1984.12-1995.06
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609 Montpelier Street
Undertook comprehensive rehabilitation of a two-storey frame house and garden; installation of wood stove, floor vents and a whole house fan, storm windows, wall and ceiling insulation and electrical wiring; converted a former driveway into an organic vegetable garden; became the hub of the Chesapeake Energy Alliance and - after the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) - the home for a pro se intervention in the TMI Unit I Restart proceedings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
information-habitat.net/projects/609-mont.htm
diet,
document storage,
energy,
home ownership,
law and the courts,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1974.06-1984.12
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3037 Guilford Avenue
Re-decorated 3037 Guilford Avenue, two-story brick row house in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore; established a small organic gardening plot, including a compost piles; planted fruit tree, vegetables and annual and perennial flowering plants; expanded ground floor front room with removal of a non load-bearing interior wall; hosted small communal living experiment with another married couple.
information-habitat.net/projects/3037-gui.htm
diet,
home ownership,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1969.08-1976.08
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