Biosl1elter Apartment The geodesic aome prov1ties H year-round climatic envelope. Apartments berrned into Ille ground ring the periphery creating simultaneous interior and exterior views W1th1n the clome 1s a l1sh farm. lounta1n/aquat1c heating and cooling. market gardening. a park and playground The exterior environment 1s an agricultural forestry landscape. Renewable energy sources power the whole system. It is really only the automobile that makes us think of villages in primarily spatial rather than social terms. A village is not so much a place where a given house is located as the locus of a family, a festival, a garden or a fish pool, the major portion of the lives of many individuals, closely interlocked. In effect, we are talking about breathing new life into what we mean when we say that we live in a given place. -Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist mion of ecology and micro-electronics we are beginning to the relationship of culture to nature. As the world rel itself into a planetary culture, the nation-state will deitself into more viable areas of regional identity; concomithis process is a de-structuring of the megalopolis. In the ecological and electronic village, we will not see the dise of the city; rather we will see an intensification and zation of the city. iam Irwin Thompson, cultural historian ly trendy these days to talk about such ideas as gether. It's fuzzy and soft and non-quantifimufacture it out of old beer cans. ts, sociologist & tree person velop into a ro-fold: to feed endering this May 1981 RAIN Page 13 Drawings from The Village as Solar Ecology Grandparents [in 2030 will] amuse the c:hildren with stories about square tomatoes and featherless chickens. The featherless chicken was developed in the 1970s by reductionist technologists who thought they would help corporate chicken growers and processors to cut costs in cleaning chickens. The consequence was a funny-looking chicken that required such a warm environment that the energy costs were in excess of the cleaning costs. The moral of the story is that big money is a sure license for big foolishness. -Wes Jackson, biologist More and more, I think a tools/models book will generate a vast first-generation village-activity all around the world, and from that experience, from its successes and failures, will spring the really worthwhile villages we're all talking about. We can't begin to lay down all the rules at this time. Domestic Sewage first enters a digester and gas producing unit. The gas 1s used to heat the digester The effluent enters a second facility, a circular "river" with transparent sides The water flows counterclockwise first entering chambers filled with a dense_"forest" of aquatic plants. As the water is purified the diversity of organisms increases. Finally it is fit for fish and their swimming range within the ring is a purification indicator The windmill drives an air compressor and compressed air is injected into the facility when winds exceed 6-8 m.p.h. -Malcolm Wells, architect
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