My PowerPoint Presentation to Lake Worth Beach City Commission on December 7, 2021
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My Donation of The Lee Porter Butler archives to North Carolina State University
It is with tears of joy that I announce the donation of the archives of all of lee Porter Butler’s works to North Carolina State University. This happened on September 11, 2020 at almost the precise moment that nineteen years earlier a plane hit the World Trade Center in new York City causing a terrorist […]
Jill introduced by the Mayor of Kilkenny to present EKOTECTURE
JULY 25 Peruvian Independence Day and St. James Day in Christendom
Three years ago today, July 25, 2017 I had arrived in Iquitos, Peru to spend a few weeks in the low jungle, before going to the high jungle and the mountains. I had had my first experience with the mother plant, Ayahuasca, on Good Friday that same year. I knew I had to go to […]
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, […]