From lbutler@GATE.NETThu Mar 16 22:43:18 1995 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:53:52 GMT From: Lee Butler Reply to: Alternative Energy Discussion List To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Orchid School Orchid School Is a place in which individuals, students, artists, grass roots neighborhood groups and teachers can come together and find solutions to environmental and social problems by striving to create beauty in the world. We will co-create a healthy sustainable local neighborhood economy producing beautiful utilitarian objects of art and at the same time, conduct a multi-cultural ritual celebration of life through art. It will be a place where people will take great pride in what they do, be responsible for who and what they are and be accountable to each other for the peace and welfare of the whole. We will provide a stimulating and inspiring environment in which young artists can develop their full potentialand demonstrate the philosophy that "small is beautiful", "less is more" and that "individuality and variety create the spice of life". We will strive to express these values through our building designs, our social relationships and our art. The school will provide a participatory design service, facilitated by expereinced trained professionals, in which individuals can meet, freely communicate, share cultures, stories, prioritize their own values, objectives, define their own needs and ultimately focus to organize their own resources and create solutions to their own social and environmental problems. The school will produce it's own energy using benign, earth friendly, non-polluting, autonomous resource free passive technologies and will be free of the existing power complex. It will grow 50% of it's own food,including of fish, shrimp, herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers in airponic and hydroponic greenhouses and slat houses integrated within the building complex. It will utilize the patented principles of Ekotecture =A9. Orchid School will be located at Georgia and N Street, West Palm Beach, =46lorida. The site overlooks Howard Park with it's Art Armory and the Kravits Performing Arts Center. It is conveniently located in the heart of a revitalizing historic art's neighborhood in downtown West Palm beach. It is only a short 10 minute walk to the Intercostal, the island of Palm Beach and the Atlantic Ocean. In the future, Orchid School expects to receive government grants, private foundation gifts, tax deductible donations from individual patrons and royalties from patents and copyrights. At the present time, we derive our income as a percentage of the sale of fine art and objects of art which are created by interior designers, artists and crafts people. These objects and services are marketed through Jill's, Customized Objets de' Art at 323 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida and through top end decoraters, retailers and mail order catalogs internationally. It is our intention to become a model community & educational development center for sustainable global development. March 14, 1995 Lee Porter Butler Jill Karlin Butler 620 Biscayne Drive West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 407-659-7656 Lee Porter Butler 620 Biscayne Drive West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 407-659-7656 Orchid School