E K O T E C T U R E: Comparison of Infrastructures and ADVANTAGES OVER ARCHITECTURE AND CONVENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The current system is cumbersome. The E K O T E C T U R E system is circular, sustainable, and requires no resources from the outside to sustain life in comfort and joy, once created. ADVANTAGES OF E K O T E C T U R E OVER ARCHITECTURE & CONVENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Lowers Life […]
Ekotecture – UK Presentation ~ Southend-on-Sea
recent visit to Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK, Jill Karlin Butler made two public presentations on Ekotecture to interested members of the community. Information about the presentations and Jill’s Art Exhibition at Art@Utopia was published in the Echo Southend, on Friday 30th August 2013
Ekotecture Presented to Kilkenny Councillors and Community
This summer Jill Karlin Butler traveled to the UK via Ireland, where during her first visit an opportunity arose for her to made her first presentation to a select group of Kilkenny County Councillors on Ekotecture. Ekotecture lays out the foundation and definition of sustainable architectural design, through which social and economic sustainability is a […]
Ekotecture – Presentation at The Beach Club, Lake Worth Florida
Ekotecture Presentation- Wise Tribe Event, Delray Beach Florida
As a member of the Wise Tribe Group ~ a social movement using experiential learning to bring the generations together for a wiser world; Jill Karlin Butler and Donald R Edge, presented the concepts and benefits of Ekotecture to the group of thought leaders and visionaries at Arts Garage, Delray Beach on Wednesday evening.
Ekosea Homes
Ekose’a Homes was first self published by Lee in 1979 in response to an outpouring of inquiries about his work due to the “gas crisis”, lines at the fuel pumps, and fear of oil shortages. Co-created by Lee Porter Butler and his wife Jill Karlin Butler in 1992, Ekotecture evolved over a 20-year period and […]
Lee Porter Butler
The gravity geo-thermal envelope Environmental architect, Lee Porter Butler, was heralded for his invention of “the gravity geothermal envelope”, a way to heat and cool houses without using fossil fuels based on natural geothermal convection with no moving parts. “The envelope” was featured on the covers of Popular Science, Better Homes and Gardens and Shelter […]
Conserving natural resources creating harmony on our planet forever.
Ekotecture is a new paradigm for a healthy world. Ekotecture is an integrated design system, which allows for environmentally benign co-existence between humans, their needs and the planet. Ekotecture is defined as the functional integration of architecture, utility engineering and agriculture with the forces of nature (gravity geothermal, solar) within a single building, neighborhood design, […]