[Cob] EcoDwelling Program, Santa Rosa, CA

[Joseph Kennedy]

Get your degree studying about cob! (and other natural building topics)

The EcoDwelling Concentration Concentration of the BA completion and MA 
program in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community is accepting 
applications for Fall 2004 (September) and Spring 2005 (January) semester 
starts.  Get your degree and study natural building, ecological design, 
hands-on skills and the most full-fledged accredited program of it's type in 
the nation.

Contact Joe Kennedy at 707 568 3092 or jkennedy at newcollege.edu for more 
information.

EcoDwelling Concentration Overview

The EcoDwelling Concentration is a holistic approach to dwelling in the 
broadest sense – encompassing the very nature of existence and being – and 
the entire process by which we inhabit our ecosystems and the planet.  It is 
concerned with the causes of our current dwelling process failure, the 
principles of success, and the application of principles in the design of 
equitable, sustainable, universally affordable alternatives.  The 
Concentration provides students with an opportunity to implement vision, 
theory and design of radically affordable, sustainable means of dwelling, 
through lecture, discussion, design projects, and hands-on building with 
straw-bales, cob, and other natural materials.

The EcoDwelling Concentration is intended for anyone with an interest in any 
aspect of the dwelling process and its relationship to the whole.  It is 
intended for anyone interested in discovering how to make their own way and 
means of dwelling more affordable, sustainable and liberating – thereby 
being able to help others do the same.  As awareness of our collective 
crisis increases, the need for those who can recognize, understand, and 
implement sustainable alternatives will be substantial.

New College

New College of California is an accredited institution of higher learning 
whose mission is to integrate education with personal transformation and 
social change to create a more just, sacred and sustainable world.

Our academic programs and curriculum have been developed to create the 
pathways for our students to walk toward this better world.  We teach of the 
need to heal from the traumas of living in a much less that just, sacred and 
sustainable world; to resist the further destruction of people and the 
planet; to create alternatives that inspire us to live differently in the 
world; to change consciousness from reductionist, objectifying paradigm to 
one more holistic and systemic; and finally of the need to overcome the 
destructive fallacy of the isolated, autonomous individual and embrace the 
concept of the communal and ecological self.

New College’s North Bay Campus Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community 
Program offers year-long BA completion and MA degrees.  Students develop 
their particular concentrations by focusing their work in their area of 
interest.  Students may choose to create an Individually Designed 
Concentration, or students may select from developed concentrations 
(including EcoDwelling, Ecological Agriculture, Nutrition and Painting in 
the Landscape) that have set curricula that require additional weekend or 
weekday class time.

For more information of about New College, how to apply and additional 
programs contact us at: www.newcollege.edu/northbay,  Phone: 707 568 0112
Address: 99 Sixth Street, Santa Rosa, California 95401


Faculty Biographies

Steve Beck MArch, is a designer and inventor.  He has trained as an 
architect and Buddhist monk, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from 
the University of Washington.  Over a 15-year period he designed, built and 
lived in (full time) a series of tiny portable solar houses, none of which 
cost more than $1,200 (several considerably less).
Phone: 707 577 8183

Joseph F. Kennedy is a designer, builder, writer, artist and educator.  
Joseph received degrees in Architecture from the University of California at 
Berkeley and the Southern California Institute of Architecture with an 
additional degree in International Peace Studies from the University of 
Notre Dame.  Working with pioneers in the field, he has been at the 
forefront of ecological design and construction for the past seventeen 
years.  He is Cofounder of Builders without Borders, a non-profit 
organization dedicated to housing the homeless.  Joseph is a co-editor of 
The Art of Natural Building (New Society 2002), and is currently editing 
Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village 
(New Society 2004).
Phone: 707 568 3092  jkennedy at newcollege