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All of these great men had
a dream.........
Robert,
John and Martin all had a dream for our nation ,our world and people.
A
dream that has been some how forgotten despite the fact all three of these
heroes sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of the dream. They fought for a world of equality and
justice for all. Without their leadership and guidance we have some how lost the
way. Now we must revisit the ideals and inspirations of these
fallen heroes and take action-now! Power For The People-All People.
"I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning
of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal."
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"If
Man is to survive, he will have learned to take delight in the essential
difference between people and cultures"-Gene
Roddenberry
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Gene Roddenberry had a
vision of the future: one where there was a common purpose of growth and
understanding . People from all backgrounds, nations, faiths and races worked together as
equals. Technology was available to all as a tool to explore and grow.
Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future is the catalyst that has inspired
solcomhouse. Our "prime directive" should be to follow the
vision and foresight that Gene Roddenberry put forth as our potential
future. A future where poverty does not exist, one where technology is not
the great segregator but the great equalizer.
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Our
Mission
The solcomhouse website
provides
information to everyone on how to do your part to save
the planet . The Goals of solcomhouse are to provide the people of the world
housing that is in sync and in harmony with the environment. solcomhouse
provides information on numerous environmental issues, such as solar energy,
rainforests, coral reefs, ozone, global warming, endangered species, recycling,
and things you can do to save the environment. solcomhouse can build a house
that will save 70% of energy costs with no additional building costs just by
design and placement. With a photovoltaic system added the house will be energy
self sufficient.
Our name solcomhouse
is a combination of the following words:
solar
computer house
We will enable the people to acquire the power of knowledge and the
power of the Sun, the power for the people. All
of our projects will incorporate the following:
RECYCLED PRODUCTS- ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN-
STEEL FRAMING-
ENERGY EFFICIENT
APPLIANCES- PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY
SYSTEM-
COMPUTER CONNECTED-INTERNET
ACCESS-PASSIVE SOLAR
DESIGN
Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde
Through
most of history people considered the power of the sun when designing
buildings. After the industrial revolution the practice of utilizing the
sun was abandoned.
Past
societies such as the Greek, Roman, Native American, Celtic all revered the sun
and put its thermal - or heat - energy to work. Ancient cities were
positioned to use the sun for it's warmth in the winter, and to be shaded
from the heat in the summer.
Native
Americans developed and refined many building forms and construction
methods that we can learn from today.
Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling
at Mesa Verde
The Anasazi of the southwest created
houses that through their design stayed warm in the winter and yet cool in
their hot desert summers. At the ancient Indian sites of Mesa Verde and
Pueblo Bonito,"pretty village" in Spanish, the ruins reveal houses ingeniously laid out to maximize
their solar energy gain by following the cycles and angles of the sun.
Pueblo Bonito
The
Ancient Romans and Greeks both had their own "energy crisis" in
the b.c. time period.
They used all of the wood surrounding their cities and
did not plan ahead by planting more trees. They had to get wood from far
away sources. The ancient Greeks planned whole cities in Greece and Asia
Minor such as Priene, to allow every homeowner access to sunlight
during winter to warm their homes. By running the streets in a
checkerboard pattern running east-west and north-south pattern every home
could face south, permitting the winter sun to flow into the house
throughout the day.
Map
of Priene
Roman
bath houses in the first to fourth centuries A.D. had large south-facing windows
to let in the sun's warmth. 
The
Baths of Caracalla The
Roman Empire had solar access laws, and the Doctrine of Ancient Lights protected
landowners' rights to light in nineteenth-century Britain. Several dozen U.S.
communities adopted solar access regulations in the 1970s and early 1980s in
response to the energy crisis. 
Queens,
NY - Inner-city row housing with burned-out buildings
We have another thing in common with
these great cultures-when their main cultural centers fell into decay it was
the down fall of both the Greek and Roman civilizations. That is what has
happened to our major cities-population and business has left for the
suburbs. Our culture has lost its sense of community and belonging. We
will build solcomhouse in the "brown areas"-sites where factories and
industry are now vacant and abandoned dilapidated home areas of
major cities. Philadelphia alone has roughly 27,000 abandoned homes and
16,000 vacant lots
Queens,
NY - Burned out row houses
The people that live in these neighborhoods now have a
second class citizenship standard. In effect the computer technology
revolution is putting into place a technological segregation based on
color and income levels.
We will build a home that will be in harmony with nature and
the environment. solcomhouse will harness the power of the Sun. solcomhouse will be connected to the
internet and provide the power for the people.
The Internet Age and The
People
The Internet Revolution is
bypassing the poor and minorities and those that live in rural communities
and inner cities in the United States and around the world.
The gap between people who have access to the
internet and those that don't is getting increasingly wider day by day.
This gap is clearly between racial and income levels. Minorities,
low-income persons, the less educated, and children of single-parent
households, particularly when they reside in rural areas or central
cities, are among the groups that lack access to information resources. Knowledge is power and a vast portion of our nation has no access to
it.
To
be connected today increasingly means to have access to telephones,
computers, and the Internet. While these items may not be
necessary for survival, arguably in today's emerging digital economy they
are necessary for success.
solcomhouse will harness the power of the Sun.
solcomhouse will be connected to the internet and provide the power for the
people. The goal of solcomhouse is to use these principles and meld them
with the technology that is available to enhance the quality of life for the
people and the world. solcomhouse will provide housing that
gives the people of the world housing that is in sync and in harmony with
the environment. solcomhouse will provide the power for the people.
"The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised"
- Gil Scott Heron
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