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Think creatively: start big, use constraints as a filter and find the simplest solutions.

I think this is a pretty succinct statement: dreams + reality.

Never heard of Paul Polak or Nextbillion before. Guess I better look them up...

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Comment by Nick Heyming on March 18, 2010 at 4:30pm
So whats your big idea?
Comment by David Dewane on March 18, 2010 at 4:48pm
Nick – I have the feeling we’ve met in the past...possibly in Biloxi. I was there for a few days maybe two months after the storm meeting with David Perks and I stayed the night at the Hands On camp. We had the most incredible time drinking on the beach and picking up garbage while the full moon pulled the tide way out.

My big idea? I just graduated and am trying to discern just that. My wife still has a year left in school (also an architect) and we are spending 6 months in Europe and 6 months in Houston. Then looking forward to something more permanent. I am seriously interested in the work done be the ELEMENTAL Project and had a chance to meet Alejandro Aravena a few months back. I think their strategy is poised to take off and I’d love to spread the virus. Serious possibilities for dignified housing for millions of city dwellers. The work they’ve done is pretty beautiful, but could probably stand to be improved from an energy/material standpoint. It would also be interesting to develop a rural offshoot.

What about you? Where are you now and where are you going in the next few years?
Comment by Nick Heyming on March 18, 2010 at 5:10pm
Wow, yeah, I totally remember that evening. Were you there when the coast guard shut us down for having glass on the beach, the night after we'd spent the wh*** day picking trash up off of it?

That elemental project sounds really cool. I'm working on an elemental performance project, but thats a little different. You can get a little idea about it from my latest Imagine 3 post.

As for what I'm working on, Growcology. It was actually Cameron and David that inspired me to get into sustainability, before that, I had never really considered it. Now we're trying to relocalize food production and get people involved in gardening, recycling, and alternative energy. Its fun, but for now its a labor of love...
Comment by Adam Sunman on March 18, 2010 at 5:19pm
Nick, Growcology looks amazing! hopefully the communities you help pass on the skills they have learnt and that it spreads throughout many areas! - Your point about the beach is interesting. I've been a mountain climber almost all my life, always been climbing in Poland, and remember my dad giving me a bin bag, and us walking back down the mountain picking up the litter that people had just dumped, to give something back to nature, which had given us the great day and great view,

We always took out bin bags back to the hotel and threw them away there, but last year when I went out with my girlfriend, and stayed in a youth hostel without a car, I found myself at the bottom of the mountain with a bin bag that not a single tourist shop/cafe/park ranger would take. these people were benefiting from the mountain, but didn't care enough to take some rubbish that had been taken from the mountain itself....

It boils back down to respect, something which I've alluded to in some of my blog posts, but that should be at the forefront of people's minds...
Comment by John D. Boyden on May 1, 2010 at 4:23pm
i agree a nice succint statement. +1 vision

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