When I was browsing through many people, organizations, or projects that concern a better world by design, there were two architects that caught my eyes, Michelle Kaufmann and Fritz Haeg. Michelle started looking for where she could leave, but she couldn’t find one that she wanted. Then she has come with an idea of making home that can give the most out of everything that’s used. She has designed home that requires zero maintenance, zero energy use, and zero waste of water and also are able to be mass produced. From use of off-site technology and sustainable materials and methods, her company reached to get these benefits,

• significant time savings
• 50% - 75% less waste
• increased quality control
• quicker to market
• reduced risk
• inventory control
• easier to target the intended market
• prepackaged green solutions
• quicker to market
• marketability of green solutions with high quality design

By giving people chance to have pre-constructed home created in a factory, Michelle’s company integrated pre-packaged green solutions.

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The other architect, Fritz Haeg, has ongoing project called Edible estates. Fritz says, “the utopian fantasy of the project is that all the front lawns in the United States disappear and they all become replaced with highly diverse edible landscapes, each one differs from the next, reflecting the taste of owners.” Not only he is trying to bring back the idea of growing and eating your own food when there used to be a war and everyone in farms were away from country, but he is creating a whole new idea of involving community together through planting green and making the earth healthier. Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant says “Edible Estates describes wonderfully how a garden in front of every house can transform a neighborhood, sprouting the seeds not just of zucchini and tomatoes but of biodiversity, sustainability, and community.” The “Edible Estates” project is just amazing to see how amazing to just plant on the small space with earth that you have been given can change such things in the world.

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/
http://www.dwell.com/peopleplaces/conferences/videos/17171261.html