Critical Thinking Now! – The who, what, where, when, and why of critical thinking
Description: My name is Michael G. Smith, I am a natural builder. That means I build things using natural materials, primarily straw, clay, wood, and stone.
I am a natural builder. That means I build things using natural materials, primarily straw, clay, wood, and stone. I love working with these materials, learning a little bit more about them every time, and sharing that knowledge with others.
I grew up on a construction site. Our family home was continually under construction by my architect father, and I learned the basics of carpentry at a young age. Later I got a degree in Environmental Science and Engineering at MIT. After college, I spent two years volunteering with a sustainable forest management project in Costa Rica.
In 1993, all these threads came together when I helped start the Cob Cottage Company in Oregon. Along with co-directors Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley, we revived the tradition of cob building that had been dormant in the United States for 150 years and in Britain for half as long. During the next five years I traveled widely around the Western states, teaching cob workshops at dozens of sites and meeting many other builders along the way. In 1994, we convened the first Alternative Building Colloquium, rename
Critical Thinking Now! – The who, what, where, when, and why of critical thinking