ReDirect Guide's 6th Annual sustainable home and garden show on May 17 and 18, 2008 at the Portland EXPO Center. This year's show is poised to be our biggest and best featuring the following key themes:

ReDirect Guide's 6th Annual sustainable home and garden show on May 17 and 18, 2008 at the Portland EXPO Center. This year's show is poised to be our biggest and best featuring the following key themes:

More discussion regarding possible topics:

Natural Disasters: the way in which they shape the design realm-using natural disasters as a source of inspiration for the landscapes, buildings, and cities we design.
• “Thinking Small”-solving our ecological problems will
Solving our ecological problems will require massive change, as Bruce Mau has suggested. Yet even as we must think big, we must also remember to think small. Visions are accomplished incrementally; details are important; impacts must be studied and limited; the meek among us require protection. Join us as we consider the meaning of “local” and “appropriate,” as we ponder the ripple effect. Help us contemplate nanotechnology and microclimates. Plant the tiny seeds to grow the revolutionary change.

Topics:
Scale – buildings, economies (Schumacher), “local” discussion
Nature – microclimates, invertebrate communities, guerilla gardening, agricultural questions