"What Smart Shelter Can Do For You"

How Can The Network Help Me?

**It can answer your questions about alternative building subjects such as strawbale, toxic materials, adobe, passive solar design, Feng Shui, solar electricity, etc.

** It can provide you with in-depth education about natural building practices which have proven effective in this area through its course series or consultation.

** It can help you meet people who share your interest in environmentally responsible building.

** It can provide a way for you to support a sustainable building economy in this region.

** It can provide you with an avenue and network to help you find work in this field.

What Does the Network Do?

** It tracks working systems and structures as well as the people who build them in Western Colorado from Aspen to Pagosa Springs.

** It photographs and case studies successful buildings. This information is placed in a resource pool.

** It promotes regional businesses offering services in natural building through business screenings, qualifications, recommendation and listing on the Smart Shelter "Green Pages" (see website at www.smartshelter.com)

** It creates a communication network between people practicing or interested in Natural Building.

** It provides advocacy and education to builders, inspectors, politicians, insurers and banks about natural building.

** It produces courses, seminars,school programs and home tours of regional buildings.

** It networks with national and international organizations to bring the region up to date.

** It provides assistance to people selling or looking for land or homes as well as land planning.

** It has equipment such as straw moisture meters, solar mappers, etc. available for rent.

** It maintains a library on sustainable building

What Kind of Information Can I Get Through the Network?

The network's resource file covers strawbale building, passive solar design, adobe, cob, pressed earth, earthships, environmental illness, electromagnetic fields, Feng Shui, water catchment, biological waste water treatment, remodeling, solar electric, solar hot water, pressed block, permaculture, green houses, green building, finance, insurance, Russian Stoves, timber frame, green power....and more.

What Does It Cost?

(note: at the time of publication, this flyer included membership fees, a system which has since been abandoned. Current access to information is provided on an individual or group basis, and gauged both in availability and access in accordance to the person's demonstrated commitment to community service...the capacity to go beyond themselves. Contact the network for information)

How Do I Get Started??

Contact the Smart Shelter Network: Gary Duncan, Director)

email: gd@smartshelter.com

Visit our web site: www.smartshelter.com