(For BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) Coordinating two-dozen local food purveyors for a conference is no small feat! But if anyone is up to the task it’s Tina Tamale. We chat with Tina ‘Tamale’ Ramos about her experience delivering the best handmade Oakland fare to the 2014 BALLE Conference, and her eight-year…
(For BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) The Prosperity For All Scholarship Fund works with funders and foundations to grant BALLE Conference attendance to emerging Localist leaders from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented communities. BALLE recently caught up with Scholarship coordinator Zac Taylor to chat about how the program works, and what impact…
(BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) Eighteen members of government, business, philanthropy and economic development from one Pennsylvania town decided to attend BALLE 2014 together, and launch a Localism initiative set to scale back home. Written with ASSETS Lancaster. ASSETS, a microenterprise development organization in Lancaster, PA, is seeding and supporting businesses who aim to…
Whatever became of Sanitation Sally? Since 2011, Lisa Smyth has been working on the front lines of sanitation reform in Haiti – an under-addressed issue, she confessed in a project post by Architecture for Humanity. Waste is a hard enough thing to discuss publicly, let alone address earnestly. Yet there was promise – a sanitation summit on…
Can furniture revolutionize medical care in Haiti? (Students Rebuild) Adam Saltzman’s a natural behind the wheel in Haiti: liberal use of the horn; taking the shoulder when the tap-taps get jammed up; commanding the rugged road. It’s a rosy view through his SUV’s cracked windshield. “This is the backup car,” he assures us. The new…
Before October 2010, Haiti had no documented cases of cholera. Since then, the country of 10 million hasn’t passed a day without it. While easily treatable, cholera has been responsible for the deaths of thousands, and Haiti and international health organizations are fighting it with few and shrinking resources. During Haiti’s rainy seasons, what would…
(Oz Journal – co-written with Stacey McMahan) There is a reason why Pétionville is the center of the recovery effort in Haiti. Its perch in the hills above Port-au-Prince offers relative isolation from the metropolis, in addition to the mind-boggling panoramic views of the basin and bay from which that city has grown – qualities…
“So, for starters–what is architecture?” Garrett Jacobs wastes no time getting to the big Q’s. A circle of 20 teens have (willingly) gathered in the belly of a 21st Century museum to learn about the profession. In the middle of the Contemporary Jewish Museum lies a multipurpose youth room with an orange floor (“the only…
(AFH Chapter Quarterly) What lies at the heart of a humanitarian design network?
I had the great fortune to tag along with architect and former Architecture for Humanity design fellow (and PID essay coauthor) Stacey McMahan on a week-long return to Haiti. I’d been following the progress of this country since just before the 2010 earthquake, through the work of Architecture for Humanity and Engineers Without Borders (before…
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