An artist’s model for one of the H Box designs currently in development at MICA (photo c/o Amira Rasayan)

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• Hundreds of unused wooden storage crates, plus some smart thinking by a local design team, just might equal a housing solution for earthquake survivors in Haiti… We hear about the genesis of a new, multi-purpose architectural unit dubbed the “H Box”
• Community gardening and sustainable agriculture are more popular than ever, and we meet two people who are working to build partnerships that’ll produce not only vegetables, but communities to last well beyond the growing season.
• And the story of a young priest-in-training who goes out one morning for a jog and ends up on an unlikely path toward sainthood – short fiction from satirist D R Belz.

HELPFUL LINKS:

Click here to look at drawings and models of the “H Box” in development. And click here to share your feedback on the design process so far.

Here are links for We Patch and the Hamilton Crop Circle

Click here to find a copy of D R Belz’ book “White Asparagus”

And click here to join a discussion group about “White Asparagus”