(note: april, 2004....this is a list presented to students at the original course in 1999 of the areas of information and research for which Smart Shelter had files. No attempt has been made at its web publishing now...5 years later...to update it. Many changes and additions have taken place, indeed entire segments of vocabulary have been invented that did not exist at that time. Updating this rapidly moving area of knowledge, research and development is almost futile and didactic. Eventually, the website listing of Resource File Subjects available for your immediate access and digital transfer (as well as our expedited capacity to update) will extend beyond what you find here. In the meantime we are posting this here both as an archive and to give an idea, pending the digital resource files catching up with the paper ones...what the paper ones look like...or at least did then. It should give you a basic understanding of the scope of knowledge the network undertakes and also the language those in the EI, Natural Building and Native Lifestyle sectors speak...which is rapidly becoming a language of its own.)

academic programs

ACES

accomodations

accountants

adhesives

adobe contacts

adobe floors

adobe information

adobe-pressed

block

affordable housing

agriboard

agricultural bldgs

agriculture

air-crete

air quality

alcohol

allergies

alliance for democracy

appliances/fixtures

aqua-culture

architects

art in sustainability

Aspen Ski Corp.

atrocities

attorneys

bag buildings

bamboo

bau-biology

bibliography

biodomes

Biol. waste water

biologists

BLM

blower doors

bookstores

botanists

brick

budgets

builders

building codes

building costs

building officials

building permits

cabins

carpenters

carpet

catalogues

chemical injury

cisterns

city councils

codes

cohousing

Colo. Cross

disability Coalit.

Colo. Dept

Public Health

Colo. Pub. Util. Co.

commercial

buildings

community

organizations

composting

composting toilets

concrete

conferences

conserv. easemnts.

consultants

consumerism

contractors

contracts

convent. const.

upgrade

cooling

corporations

costs

county commissioners

constructed

wetlands

cruising

CSU extension

daylighting

design

designers

developers

disabilities

disasters

disposal

DMEA

DOE

domes

don'ts

dowsing

drafting

earthships

education

elect. power gener.

electric cars

elect. generation

electricians

embodied energy

EMF

Energy

energy codes

energy efficiency

ESTAR

energy use

engineered lumber

engineering

engineers

envelope houses

environmental

illness

equinox

events

faswal

feng shui

ferro cement

fibre concrete

films/videos

financial institutions

fire places

flooring

floors

foam block

foam insulation

floor covering

forest issues

Forest Service

fuel cells

furnishings

gardening

geology

glazing

global warming

government buildg.

government entities

graywater

green builder program

greenhouses

ground source heating

growth

gunite

Gunnison Co Elect

habitat for humanity

hazardous waste

HCCA

HBA

healthy homes

heating

heat recovery units

hemp

historic preserv.

humor/novelties

hybrid structures

hydro

indoor air quality

inertia houses

in-slab heat

institutions

insulation

insurance

intentional

communities

interiors/ finishes

international

internet

investing

junk mail

k value

kenaf

labor

landfills

landscaping

land conservancy

land use/planning

legal

libraries

legislation

life cycle costing

light clay

light weight

concrete

linoleum

logs

Louisiana Pacific

low-toxic homes

mailing list

manufacturers

maps

marketing

masonry

massing

materials

media

metals

MCS

media

mobile housing

Montrose County

native plants

natural building

natural gas

net metering

non-profits

non-toxic

North Fork River

Impvt. Assn.

Norwest Bank

OEC

organic growers

organic meat

organizations

ORV's

Ouray County

owner/builder

ozonators

paint/ stains

paper-crete

patent

permaculture

pesticides

petroleum

PV

photovoltaic

pilots

planned

communities

planning

plaster

plastic lumber

plumbers

pollution

population/ growth

potash

poured adobe

pressed block adob

problems

prostainability

public buildings

publications

publishers

pumicecrete

pumps

radon

rammed earth

rastra block

real estate agents

real estate apprais.

reclaimed struct.

reclaimed water

recycling

remodeling

renewable energy

sources

resources

retirement

riparian habitat

rivers

river rats

roads

Rocky Mountain

Institute

roofing

root cellars

r-panels

sailing

salvage materials

schools

SAD/seas. affect.

sacred geometry

sewage

shading devices

site planning

s**t list

soils

solar

solar cooking

solar design

solar electric

solar elect-gridtied

solar engineers

solar heat-active

solar heat-passive

solar hot water

solar ovens

solar pools

solid waste

space heaters

spray foam

State of Colo.

statistics

steel

stone

storage tanks

stoves

strawbale

strawbale build

consultants.

strawbale projects

list

strawbale building

costs

strawbale financing

strawbale insur.

straw sources

strawbale testing

straw growers

straw panels

stucco

subdivisions

subsurface homes

surveyors

sustainability

tanks

task forces

tents

terra domes

thermal storage

thermo siphons

tile

timber frame

tipstires

toxic buildings

tradesmen

Tri-State

trombe walls

used materials

US Govt.

utility companies

ventilation

vermiculture

videos

waste water treat.

water

water catchment

water filters

water quality

water testing

water treatment

watson wick

wattle and daub

weather

wetlands

wheat sheet

wildlife

wind power

windows

WLN

wood stoves

women & building

workshops

youth