Miles Flansburg wrote:Howdy Devin , welcome to permies! I visited Arcosanti years ago, when the gardens and greenhouse were just a drawing. At the time I thought that I would love to be a part of that, but life had other plans for me. I would love to hear more about that experience!
Arcosanti was fun I lived there for 4 years. While a great experience and a wonderful place to meet similarly minded people from around the world, there were a lot of issues with the management of the place. I think a lot of it was due to the older crowd who had been there fromthe begining being in power and having not kept up on the newer innovations and ideas. The running joke for a lot of folks was that it was a great example of how not to do things. That said, it was not all bad, like I said I had a lot of fun. The landscape coordinator who I took over landscaping from was great, and she had some wonderful knowledge. However I am pale and have red hair, grew up in the Pac NW, so not really suited for AZ weather. Then I started developing an allergy to the mesquite pollen and the only med that seemed to do anything was benadryl. Which while relieving the allergy also made me nonfunctional. So it was time for me to leave and I moved to Eugene OR.
*edit to add, btw after I left, they finally started work on the prototype energy apron greenhouse. I have not been back to see it, but that was something that really could be an interesting development in using the heat from the greenhouse to heat a large building during winter.
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