To Concretize the Dream A Conversation with Lee Porter Butler designer of Ekose’a Gravity Geo-Thermal Envelope Home
by Arjuna Da Silva in New Florida April 1989 Familiar stories from the sixties and seventies: creative, educated people go off to dabble in dreams of fame, fortune, or freedom from desire. Some reach pinnacles, others turn back too soon to achieve, and some spend long, cold nights of the soul on the […]
House Porraits
House Portraits Whimsical building histories, painted in a classical, American, naïve style, these mixed media “house portraits” of your home, hotel, museum, cottage, condo, castle, apartment, summer digs, business, boat, city, municipality, cultural organization, loved one, or pet make marvelous heirlooms. The subject is rendered centrally, and the border vignettes capture details, recording history […]
Bicycle Riding All My Life
I have ridden bicycles all my life. Once I got training wheels off, I was riding my bike to and from Grammar school, through middle school, high school, and even college. My first summer in France, as a teenager I took a bike tour through the Loire Valley. When I lived in Paris my third […]
Jill Practices and Teaches Yoga in India
What a magical place is India. Jill got to enjoy the creme de la creme in India, the guest of Biki Oberoi, the owner of The Oberoi Hotel schmoozed by royalty living in a palace by Lake Pichiola with a King from the oldest continuous dynasty on earth.
Jill Organizes Preschoolers at Opportunity Inc. to Protest the Chopping of Trees in West Palm Beach 1992
In 1992 I was awakened by a call from my stepson Aaron, who at the time was living on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach , Florida to alert me that the city was performing a chain saw massacre on all the palm trees lining the street. All the trees were facing the ax, and […]
Artist Jill Karlin First artist to Exhibit Art at Lake Worth Historical Museum
This delightful exhibition has a sprinkling of the artist’s work throughout the exhibit. One enters the “Old City Hall Annex” and at the south end of the building climbs the stairway to the second story where the story of our small city is layed out in utilitarian objects, videos, photographs, costumes, and a variety of […]
EKOTECTURE: The Most powerful tool since the development of the use of fire itself!!! The writings of Lee Porter Butler early 1990s
EKOTECTURE DEFINED as the functional integration of architecture, utility engineering and agriculture with the forces of nature (gravity geo-thermal, solar)within a single building of neighborhood design, eliminating mechanical systems, fuel consumption, maintenance, pollution and human labor. The development of the concept of EKOTECTURE provides us with the most powerful tool ever developed since the development […]
E K O T E C T U R E by Lee Porter Butler February 11, 1993
In all probability, the building you are living in at this very moment is causing disease in you without your even knowing it. It lacks oxygen and the intensity of full spectrum natural lighting required by every animal retina in order for the organism to remain immune to predators. Many of the modern materials used […]
Sister City Lake Worth First International Green Conference 2011
I love Lake Worth, the place I call home, and I have served in a variety of capacities within my city since moving here in 2010. Upon arrival, my first week living here, I was riding my bicycle downtown in Lake Worth, and scoping out my new south Florida city. As I rode to City […]