Clean Green Studios
Portland, Oregon
About
"Shelter the homeless poor." --The Book of Isaiah
Give the people a home.
That's our vision. We want homeless people everywhere to have clean, affordable shelter. Not living in doorways or in cardboard boxes or in stacks of garbage, as millions of people do now.
We're designing blueprints for small, sustainable shelters that can be built quickly by volunteers in developing nations for the poorest of the poor. Perhaps these people have lost everything from war, disease or natural disasters. Maybe they've come from their ancestral homes to the cities to find work, but now they have no place to live. We just want to help.
If you like this idea, we can talk with you about the rest:
cleangreenstudios [at] gmail [dot] com
--Margaret Smith, owner & creative director
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Sep 3, 2008
Support of all kinds
This fall, Clean Green Studios is ramping up on everything from a real live website of our own (of course we'll still be Virb friends) to a full-scale model of the structure we've designed. For this we need your support of all kinds. We've got volunteer builders in …
Jul 17, 2008
Found our visionary assistant project manager!
And he was right under our nose all this time, attending the same weekly home community group in Portland. He's taking care of some things that have sat, just hoping to be noticed, in the must-do pile for several months. Collaboration and brainstorming work wonders. …
Apr 30, 2008
Are you our visionary project manager?
We're excited about our sustainable shelter plans now being drawn up by experts in the fields of green design and missions for the poor.
At this point, we're working on finding a visionary project manager, for collaboration on local and international shelter …
Apr 6, 2008
Strongly pulled
Something big is happening in La Chureca, the community beside Managua's city dump in Nicaragua. Everyone we talk with these days is saying that God is starting something huge in that place. It feels like the rumblings of a very big rainstorm coming over the horizon "in …
GOforChange, Dec 24, 2008:
Wonderful to find you! Your work is truly inspiring. We would love to promote your products and ideas in the Baltimore, MD region. Check us out at www.goforchange.com
VoomStock, Sep 26, 2008:
Hey, thanks for the add :)
Love Letters, May 15, 2008:
we're friends!
JD Adams, May 11, 2008:
These first three links are new-age shelter designs for disaster recovery and the homeless: http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/06/15/water-shelter-sustainable-shelter-solutions-by-robert-nightingale/ http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/02/15/urban-shell-shelter-for-homeless-by-agustin-otegui/ http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/08/14/sphere-shaped-emergency-shelter-bonds-community/ Shelters using prefabricated polystyrene cement board: http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=1894 Traditional techniques in shelter construction, from: http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/15/kemery.html including mud, adobe, cob, earthbag, earthship, strawbale, bamboo, and the yurt. Structures built out of laminated cardboard: http://sustainableshelters.net/index.html Voices from the Field, feedback from affected villagers: http://www.dainet.org/livelihoods/villagers.htm Extreme examples of sustainable technology from the Cold Climate Housing Research Center:http://www.cchrc.org/SNS-Main.html
Fantasy Scribbler, May 09, 2008:
May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns. May the moonshadow never fall on you...
Julie Belle, May 07, 2008:
hello and thank you...
Equitas, May 02, 2008:
Just returned from Malawi. We absolutely fell in love with the land and the people. Check out our site for flickr photos! Hope you guys are doing well.
Brightside Design, Apr 16, 2008:
Hey thanks, I like your shots.
Siri, Apr 15, 2008:
Bring on the spirit of Jubilee!
roots.heart.wings, Apr 10, 2008:
Hello from Petersburg! Heidi Lee says Hi too! Thanks for contacting me, I love the sound of this project and all the hope it brings! My prayers are with you.