Lynne Elizabeth

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Lynne Elizabeth is founder and director of New Village Press. She is currently President of Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), a 25-year-old educational organization working for peace, environmental protection, social justice, and development of healthy communities.

Lynne is co-editor of Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts (New Village Press 2006) and co-editor of Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods (John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 2005), the first comprehensive professional textbook on modern, ecological, non-industrialized building methods, which include straw bale, rammed earth, earth bag, cob, light clay, adobe, and bamboo.

She also previously published ADPSR's national periodical, New Village Journal, which offered themed issues on Community Revitalization, Community-Scale Economics, and Education for Community Building.

In Southern California, Lynne founded and directed the former Eos Institute, an education center for the study of sustainable community development. From 1989-1995, she managed the Institute's programs and projects, including construction of a demonstration eco-house and Permaculture garden. At Eos Institute, she published Earthword Journal with themed issues on Ecological Community Development, Urban Landscape, Transportation Planning, Restoration of Cities, and Sustainable Architecture.

Lynne runs New Village Press from her home in a solar-powered co-housing community in Oakland, CA.