Resources

Here you will find articles and links to resources for Low Impact Development (LID). We hope you find this useful.

Contractors

Banyon Tree Design

Banyon Tree Design
Lisa and Chad Port
http://banyontreedesign.com


Banyon Tree Design is the primary architect for the Clearwater Commons. From their website:
Our unique design background including landscape design and architecture enables us to create and enhance the connections between the natural landscape and the built environment. This distinctive combination allows us to work with you to harmonize the indoor and outdoor spaces of your home and landscape and bring together the garden of your imagination.
Odyssey Builders Odyssey Builders
Dave Crocker
http://www.odysseybuilders.com
Odyssey is a building contractor specializing in high quality green building techniques. Dave is constantly researching the latest in the sustainable building world.
     

Articles on other sites (in no particular order)

Prescott, Arizona: EcoHood Ideas Take Root in Older Neighborhoods  
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/index.htm

Evolutions Arrow. by John Stewart. A book discussing cooperation as an evolutionarily successful strategy. At the end of this book, it talks about governance as a vertical market, where people offer various proposals for governance tasks and the marketplace matches suppliers to customers in an efficient and ever improving way:

http://www.permaculture.com/alcohol/book/toc.shtml Alcohol Can Be A Gas. by The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture. This is a book about Alcohol as a fuel due out soon(?). The link goes to the table of contents. There is also a link to excerpts from their 1983 edition of the same book.

Other Communities

Songaia

Songaia Cohousing Community
http://www.songaia.com

Songaia is located just a few miles from us and has been very supportive of our efforts.