Layout and design

An unusual US building has lessons for the ever more urgent challenge of sustainability. Heated only by the sun, its astute design has provided year-round comfortable living and professional working conditions for over 40 years.

An evaluation of the first Dutch “cluster” cohousing, starting with experimental ideas about community and neighbors collaborating, through the participatory design process, first years, and daily life today—with insights from its fifth decade.

A etimologia da palavra “permacultura” nasce da junção de duas palavras – Permanente e Cultura, sendo, esta última, inerente aos humanos e a tudo o que eles fazem no planeta, por outro lado associada à palavra em latim culturae – ação de tr