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Hi all you Domies out there! I thought I should post our latest update to this forum.

We just received a donation that will cover the cost of a new Dome
for a homeless family in Indonesia. For $2500, you or your
organization could "adopt" a family of your own. Follow along with the
construction of this home at: http://blog.dftw.org

Domes for the World is moving ahead to the next stage of finding
funding for low-income family homes in Ethiopia. OPIC is helping.
Check them out at http://www.Opic.gov

Lynda Eggiman, director of DFTW Peru, is currently in Peru pounding the
pavement and getting everything in order to finish a feasibility study
for housing there. We intend to approach Peru by building housing for
low-income to middle class families and re-investing profits into
strictly humanitarian efforts for the poorest of the poor.

The big meeting for Haiti has been postponed until May, but things are
still moving down the track for some serious developments there. Domes
for the World wants to not only build housing to protect the families
of Haiti from the hurricanes that batter the Island of Hispaniola, but
also aid in co-ordinating greater environmental and social actions.

We are in the middle of creating a new website! Our blog will be
moving from http://blog.dftw.org soon. I will let all of you know when
that happens.

We are also working hard to create a vision for Sustainable Cities
which will include recommendations from the UN on cleaning the
environment, as well as safe and permanent Monolithic Domes and
EcoShells. Donations are needed to keep this work moving forward.

You can donate by clicking: http://shop.dftw.org/

Don't forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter!
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I would love to see a dome built in the area of 70769 they are building houses as we speak even in this terrible economic time. They are building large schools too the area is still experiencing growth. If ever there was a place to establish a dome community this is it I should be able to get a dome as easily as I can get these poor examples of housing they are gobbling up placing themselves in perpetual debt for.
After Katrina we wanted to build a dome but could not get financing so we did what we had to do we put 10K into an 1982 trailer we had squrrels that were able to watch me shave they were inside in the wall.
Bad move the roof is already leaking again and we paid top dollar for a new roof and siding. It is a never ending cycle of promise and failure.
How much I would have rather placed that 10K into a dome home at least our utility bill would have reduced by at least half and the roof would not leak.
When are Americans going to quit seeing one another as income potential. While I can appreciate the values of the free enterprize system it is filled with people that will lie to get your money.Why work a job knowing full well that your product is faulty? People that build houses should be ashamed when a tornado comes through and people die or are homeless. We should have the best houses in the world but we don't. President Carter saw the pending energy crisis we are headed for getting everyone in electric cars while using coal for electricity is a disaster. We need to get our homes decked out with solar and wind to produce more power the RE way. A dome is the first step to having a home with a footprint of zero. I am only 42 but I am so shreaded up by tornado and past work related injuries that it is hardly worth the effore to preach about it any more the strongest thing I will ever be in will be a burial vault. Isn't it stupid we place the dead in the most secure location and expect the living to live in glorified boxes sitting there to be swept away by the next wind event or fire.
How about taking some of those people in those 3rd world nations shipping them here to build their dome so we can use them as examples to get a loan floated it just might work.