Imagine a news and information source that focuses on good news rather than bad. That’s the goal of a new website launched in August 2012 called NoFallingSky.com. The site recently featured a news story on the work of Domes for the World, which is helping alleviate the housing shortage worldwide through the construction of affordable, durable dome homes. (Continued…)
Lora Garrison, daughter of Don Garrison, Monolithic’s Manager of Airform Production, recently completed her Master’s Thesis. Lora has been working toward a MA degree in Arts in Community Leadership at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her 40-page thesis, DFTW International Volunteer: Training Manual includes DFTW’s goals, values and management; the construction and use of EcoShells; and virtually everything related to visiting, evaluating, and improving the lives of people living in poverty. (Continued…)
Pinnacle: Securing Hope, an organization involved in a variety of philanthropic efforts worldwide, is joining forces with DFTW to build disaster-proof Monolithic EcoShells in Belize. According to Manager Adam Webb, in November 2011, a Pinnacle team, along with others, will travel to Belize and help with the construction of the EcoShells, that will become the homes of natives now living in makeshift shacks easily destroyed by earthquakes, hurricanes and tropical storms. (Continued…)
Good things are happening in Belize! Pinnacle Security, a Utah-based residential security market, established a non-profit organization called “Domes for Belize.” Through it, they solicited contributions and organized a charity run that provided funding for the construction of EcoShells. Twenty-seven Pinnacle representatives and their families then spent a week in Belize helping with the construction. Read what they have to say about it. (Continued…)
Pinnacle: Securing Hope, a non-profit organization is working on a variety of philanthropic projects worldwide, including one with DFTW for the construction of Monolithic EcoShell homes in Belize. (Continued…)
In 2011, DFTW began planning an Impact Assessment of New Ngelepen in Indonesia. Andrew South, president of DFTW, said, “We hope to learn how the introduction of concrete dome EcoShells (and a top-down aid delivery method) has impacted the social-economic fabric of the local community. We also will be gathering data on how the use of local materials has performed, in contrast to materials traditionally used in the United States.” (Continued…)
Stephanie and Hunter Hunt are Dallas philanthropists who are working to make the world a better place by improving living standards for the world’s poorest people. That’s why they founded the Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity at Southern Methodist University. This week, the institute is raising awareness about global poverty by hosting a living village designed to inspire action. (Continued…)
When you first begin really looking into current living conditions worldwide, what you hear and read appears overwhelmingly staggering – a situation impossible to correct or even improve. We do not believe that. For one, it’s too easy – too easy to just look at the bigness and give up. Secondly, we do believe we have solutions: 21st Century technology. We know it’s practical and we believe it’s doable. (Continued…)
