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Architect Cameron Sinclair hopes to inspire architects and home designers to respond to the world housing crisis. Projects include transitional shelters like an Inflatable Hemp House, a Shipping Container and other ideas that will allow residents to eventually build a more permanent home or improve these sustainable homes. His focus is on how architecture interacts with the community and provides several plans for community centers. Countries include Africa, India, México, U.S.A., Brazil, China, Israel, Palestine, Vietnam.

His group provided Sunami relief shelters, community centers and schools. The parents and kids built and are now using theses schools. He worked with residents and volunteers in New Orleans after Katrina hurricane, to clean, redesign and rehabilitate homes without waiting for FEMA to tell them what to do. Quick assembly emergency shelters and tents, devemoped by hundreds of architects and designers and inventors that are getting involved around the world in humanitarian work.

“Excellent Development” is a UK charity working with communities in Kenya, together they are creating sand dams for capturing and storing rain water and forming terraces for farming. They’ve produced a series of short films dedicated to explaining this approach as an effective and necessary strategy to strengthen a community’s long-term sustainability.

Fact: According to The United Nations, raising animals for food causes more greenhouse emissions than all the cars, planes, ships and trains in the world.

The meat industry generates billions of pounds of drug-laced feces every year. This toxic waste frequently makes it’s way to our waterways, causing serious environmental impact with deadly consequences to millions of fish.

The end does not justify the means: It can take up to 16 POUNDS of grain to produce just ONE POUND of meat. The demand to grow so much grain to feed farmed animals causes millions of acres of native habitat (like rain forests) to be destroyed and replaced with a single crop. Now you can make a difference by signing peta2′s petition asking to label meat with a clear warning that meat is the number one cause of global warming.