[GSBN] Chris Magwood's new "Endeavour"

[kim thompson]

Hi Chris,

Congratulations on Endeavour! 
So interesting, so inspiring and so much synchronisity with dreams and possibilities opening up in Nova Scotia.

Three months ago a small group of friends here came together to purchase an old Anglican summer camp that had suddenly come up for sale a few kilometers from
my home in Ship Harbour. Our intention was to save it from condo/cottage development and keep it in the public domain. A vision for its future has natural building, art, 
education, natural environment, youth and resilient communities at its core. 

Like so many others responding to your announcement are recognizing, there is a huge hunger and need for Endeavours world-wide. We are at the beginning stages of the Deanery Project,
and will be looking to link up, and share with what you have begun in Ontario. Thanks!!

Hope our paths cross soon on the East Coast... but sounds like your plate will be full on the ground there for a bit.

All the best,

kim

Kim Thompson
Straw Bale Projects
2699 Northwood Terrace
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3S9
tel. 902-453-2429 or 902-845-2750
e mail: shipharbour at ns.sympatico.ca
 
"Tradition and modernity are merely two sides of the same coin - and must be dealt with simultaneously. Building cannot be a rigid dogma, but a living, organic, ecological project. It is about continuity, based on memory, common sense and experience and is the foundation of invention."   Hasan Uddin Khan


On 2011-09-06, at 11:40 PM, Chris Magwood wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm really pleased to be able to announce the launch of the web site for the new, not-for-profit education centre of which I am a founding director. I have decided to move on from my position at Fleming College and be part of this new initiative to create a more coherent and comprehensive sustainable building education centre, based in my hometown of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
> 
> You can see the new web site here: www.endeavourcentre.org
> 
> I hope you'll take a moment to check it out and hopefully link to it from your own web site. I'd be glad to reciprocate if you let me know.
> 
> Those of you who are familiar with the program I started and have been running at Fleming College for the past seven years (!) will see a strong resemblance to that program in Endeavour's Sustainable New Construction program. A similar model is being applied to our Sustainable Renovation program. To these, we are adding a new Sustainable Design program as well. All of these are full-time, intensive programs with lots of hands-on involvement on the part of the students. Active participation in full-scale projects will continue to be at the core of our methodology.
> 
> To these full-time programs, we're also adding a workshop schedule full of shorter courses on specific topics. If you're somebody who teaches workshops and you'd like to do so at Endeavour, please let us know. We're excited to be able to host lots of you in this part of the world and help you share what you do (while paying you to do so!).
> 
> Of particular interest to members of GSBN is the fact that Endeavour will be able to accept students from outside Canada with no penalties or increased fees. This was not possible at Fleming College, and we look forward to the wider mix of students who will be able to join us from around the world.
> 
> We've put a lot of work into trying to make the Endeavour web site informative. We are committed to "open source" sustainable building and I'm keen to continue building the site and adding more detail and documentary about what we do. I hope you find it interesting, and I'm keen to hear your feedback.
> 
> I am really excited about this new Endeavour, and hope to include an awful lot of you in it at some point or another!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Chris Magwood
> -- 
> www.endeavourcentre.org
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