Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show The EDC will have a booth at the show, representing the University of Oregon and the AAA. Admission is FREE so be sure to stop by!

Living a more natural, earth friendly life, in a healthier community will the focus of the 2nd Annual Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show. This will be the first sustainable home, garden and living show of its kind in the United States. The innovative three-day event will be held January 26-28, 2007 at the Lane Events Center in Eugene, Oregon.

Audio recordings of the Keynote presentations from HOPES 2006 are available for online listening or to download as mp3 files.

The Ecological Design Center is proud to announce the results of the 2006-2007 EDC Coordinator Elections:

The Ecological Design Center announced today that internationally acclaimed architect Shigeru Ban will present the opening keynote for its 2006 HOPES Eco-Design Arts Conference in Eugene. Now in its 12th year, the 2006 HOPES Conference will be held from April 13-16 at the School of Architecture & Allied Arts on the University of Oregon campus. Shigeru Ban will speak on the afternoon of Thursday, April 13, 2006.

World-renowned for his poetic architectural forms and structural innovation, Ban is perhaps most famous for his development of paper tube structures, disaster relief works, and refined Modernist aesthetic. Ban’s major works include the Japan Pavilion for the Hannover Expo 2000 in Germany; Paper Art Museum and Paper Church in Japan; Paper Tube Arch for MoMA in New York; DIY disaster relief housing in Rwanda and Kobe, Japan; and the recently completed Nomadic Museum, constructed almost entirely from mammoth paper columns and shipping containers.

Thank you to all who entered. The winner has been notified. We changed it a bit, and we now have our new Hopes2006 logo!

We want your ideas and designs for this year's HOPES Conference. The winner gets a free T-shirt with their design on it, and $100

You: design a logo that embodies this year’s theme: The theme of this year’s conference is Permenance/Impermenance:

"As a 21st-century culture, we alternately celebrate and decry ideals of permanence and impermanence. A lasting sense of place, permanent blight, disposable culture, ephemeral footprints: all relate to pressing questions about ecological design today, and they challenge us in our roles as the architects, designers, artists and citizens of tomorrow."

All entries are due Saturday, January 14, 2006 at midnight

Pick up a flier on the door of EDC office. Lawrence Hall Room 381B.

Rainwater Catchment Flier

The EDC is helping to sponsor the Rainwater Catchment Charrette for the Lawrence Hall Courtyard, a student project organized by Jonathan Dunn and Nic Smith. Click the image at left to see the flyer. The Charette has been run, a winner chosen and funding recieved through grants from EWEB (Partnership In Education), Lunar Logic and aided by donated materials from BRING Recycling. For more information, see Jonathan's website or email Jonathan or Nic.

The elections for next year’s edc coordinators will take place after HOPES 2006 Position descriptions will be posted here.

Elections will be held in Lawrence. All are welcome!

Please contact us at edc@uoregon.edu, or talk to one of this year’s coordinators for more information.

Congratulations to the recently elected coordinators for the 2005-2006 school year.

The first official meeting for the new crew was held May 24, and plans are already being made for next year and HOPES 12.