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The research project "New York City Resource & Mobility" by Joachim's Terrefuge ONE. Source: www.zumtobel-group-award.com

Plain Green 10 keynote Mitchell Joachim was selected for the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment at a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona in February. The award honors sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make pioneering contributions to the future quality of life. The award in the “Research & Initiative” category went to the non-profit design groupTerreform ONE, jointly founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the research project ”New York City Resource & Mobility“, a visionary plan for New York City that converts waste to buildings and reinvents the city transit system.

From TerraForm1 blog: “The work for this on-going urban project is fundamentally based on the activist notions of self-reliance in the profound writings of Henry David Thoreau, Bill Mollison, Buckminster Fuller, and William Mcdonough.”

“This project is a rich source of interesting ideas of real substance. The research team is not afraid to think in whole new directions and presents a range of visionary potential approaches that are already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate.” – Zumtobel Jury

The winners were selected by interdisciplinary and international jury of leading architects from different parts of the world, an engineer, a representative of the UN, and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group. TerraFormONE will be awarded 60,000 Euro at an awards ceremony in September, 2010.

You must see the project photos here.

photo by Dean Isham.

This year, Plain Green will open with an exciting event, a community service project, integrating hands-on learning, sustainable building concepts, and community stewardship.

The Project

The Sioux Falls Chapter of Architecture for Humanity and Sioux Falls Seminary have partnered to organize the construction of a Straw Bale Shed, April 27 and 28, before the Plain Green 10 Conference. Sioux Falls Seminary’s Summit House, located near downtown Sioux Falls in the Pettigrew Heights Neighborhood, will be the building site for the new straw bale shed. Sioux Falls Seminary students living at Summit House hope to eventually use the structure as a Tool Lending Library for the residents of the Pettigrew Heights Neighborhood for simple home maintenance and repair.

Want to get involved?

If you are interested in learning about straw bale construction, would like to help build the fi rst straw bale structure in the City of Sioux Falls, or if you would like to volunteer your time for a good cause, join the building team. Spend two days bale raising and plastering with a straw bale specialist from Nebraska, Joyce Coppinger, Managing Editor and Publisher of The Last Straw Journal.

Participants will learn sustainable construction skills with hands-on involvement while building the straw-bale shed. Space is very limited and an application is required. Though there is no fee, space is available for Plain Green attendees only. Register here today. After registering, you will be emailed an application. Team selection will be completed by April 13, 2010.

This Community Service Project is made possible by Koch Hazard Architects and Chartreuse Research, in partnership with Architecture for Humanity Sioux Falls Chapter, Sioux Falls Seminary and other supporters.

Here’s a sample, from one of the all-time fan favorites: Brian Dunbar’s “Green Buildings That Teach” from Plain Green 09.

the real steve clark

Seriously. Opening Night keynote Steve Clark will ride his bicycle the 275 miles from his home in St. Paul, MN to the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls. That’s a lot of time to think about The Bedazzling Dozen.

Watch The Bland Mediocrity of Sustainability

Fast forward to Mitchell’s take on Earth is the Place to Be

Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Terreform ONE and Terrefuge. He is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons and has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published.

Joachim was chosen by Wired magazine for “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To”. Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell as an agent of change in “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”. He was selected to be the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto for Spring 2010. Mitchell has also won the 2010 TED Fellowship.

Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and ‘eternal optimist’ at Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need. Over the past ten years the organization has worked in twenty six countries on projects ranging from school, health clinics, affordable housing and long term sustainable reconstruction. Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity co-founder Kate Stohr have compiled a compendium on socially conscious design titled “Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises”. He serves on advisory boards of the Acumen Fund, Detroit Collaborative Design Center and the Institute for State Effectiveness.

Sinclair is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2006 TED prize and the 2005 RISD/Target Emerging Designer of the Year. Recently he was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Along with co-founder Kate Stohr, Sinclair was awarded the Wired Magazine 2006 Rave Award for Architecture for their work in responding to housing needs following Hurricane Katrina. In 2008 they were recipients of the National Design Award for demonstrating “that good design can indeed change the world.” As a result of the TED Prize he and Stohr launched the Open Architecture Network, the worlds’ first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. In 2009 the network will host a global challenge to redesign educational facilities around the world.

Other keynotes at Plain Green 10 will include:

Gail Vittori, author of Sustainable Healthcare Design and 2009 Chair of US Green Building Council, the organization overseeing the LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) rating program.

Steve Clark, Walking and Bicycling Program Manager for Transit for Livable Communities, overseeing a 4 year, $22.5 million pilot program to improve conditions for walking and bicycling throughout the state of Minnesota.

Brian Dunbar, Executive Director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE), professor of Construction Management at Colorado State University and co-author of 147 Ways to Teach Sustainability.

Now in it’s third year, Plain Green will be bigger and better than ever in 2010, with five star-power keynote speakers, in-depth workshops, interactive breakout sessions and three floors of the best green exhibitors, all under one historic roof. Learn more about all the Plain Green 10 speakers here.

The Conference and Marketplace Pass gets you into the Grand Opening keynote and marketplace party on Wednesday night (4/28) and all sessions, including breakfast and lunch, plus the Marketplace, on Thursday 4/29. Early bird price: $65.00 ($99.00 after first 100).

The Student Pass gets you all the above, at a special super discount for the first 40 full time students. Price: $35.00.

Pre-Conference Workshop gets you registered for your choice of full- and half-day in-depth workshops on Wednesday 4/28 (not including LEED workshop–separate registration required). Price: $65.00 for full-day, $35.00 for half-day.

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Beside the expanded two floors of Marketplace exhibitors, Plain Green 10 will feature five world-class keynotes, nine intensive half- and full-day workshops, and now four tracks of interactive breakout sessions and panels. You’ll get to choose from concurrent sessions in these track categories:

• Design and Construction
• Engineering and Technology
• Business and Community
• Lifestyle and Garden