Your Questions About Green Living

Chris asks…

How can I fuse interests in sustainable living, animal rights, and world culture with a painting career?

The last thing I want to become as an art major is an antisocial, intellectually starved painter, chained to a canvas all day every day to make enough to stay alive. Worst case scenario. It’s just, I have all these interests, and am trying to figure out how to join them together.. Any ideas?? Please

The Expert answers:

Use the first three as inspiration for your paintings. I recommend that you read a book by the choreographer Twyla Tharp about inspiration.

Laura asks…

what are some areas to investigate a project on sustainable living for design and tech?

this is my year 10 design project and ive got no idea where to start. please help!

The Expert answers:

I’ll tell you about the new high school on the Cherokee Indian reservation (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) in the green Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee, North Carolina. It opened this year.

The two-story series of connecting buildings face wsw. They were made largely from recycled materials and scraps. The buildings have a large bank of insulated windows across the top, angled toward the heavens, to allow in light and to allow heat to escape in warm months. The regular perpendicular walls also have insulated windows, letting in heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, and letting in a lot more natural light. There are solar panels on the roof, facing ese. The building thus uses less electricity and heating and cooling energy than most buildings.

The gym has a basketball/volleyball court on the lower level, the audience seats on level up, and a bank of windows facing wnw.

Every roof, ground and upper and lower surface area is designed to capture rainwater/snowwater, which is all collected in one central place and used for watering and all nondrinking and noncooking use.

Low volume toilets and faucets are featured in the bathrooms, and automatic soap dispensers prevent
overuse of soap.

The parking lot has gullies separating each parking area, and gives parking preference to the handicapped, carpoolers, and subcompacts. Otherwise, students are encouraged to use the schoolbuses.

Although there is a small area of grass around the immediate vicinity of the building/s, no trees were cut that didn’t have to be cut in order to accomplish construction.

The building rests on a small hilltop surrounded by acres of trees.

That should give you some ideas to get started. Good luck!!

James asks…

What are good conclusions for a sustainable living assignment?

The Expert answers:

Summerise the information that you found out and what people can do with that information.

David asks…

How do you become a dancer, as a living (a sustainable living)?

Do you join a troupe, win a competition, or do you have to get discovered? How do you get paid? Is that by contract?
I’m sort of okay at two hip-hop styles (b-girl,and boogaloo–I try), but I’m really good at rave styles (strings, liquid, 8-ball), but now I’m really thinking about trying aerial tissu (also known as aerial in ballet) and belly dance (specifically – turkish caberat). All I know is that I really love to dance and I think I would like to do it as a career. I just dont know how. How much does it pay? Is there ever any time off? I also want to stay with unique expressions like rave, aerial, and belly dance. Are there any jobs for that or is it all Hip-Hop?

The Expert answers:

Rough question.

If you want to make a living dancing, here’s what you do….

1. Discover the world beyond the stage — dancers are a dime a dozen on the ballet stage and on the touring hip-hop stage. The auditions are brutal.
However, there is a world in the industry called “Industrials” ~ these are car shows, coca-cola board meetings, budweiser and all that, who put on these HUGE productions with moving lights, dancing, entertainment.
One time I worked a show for Disney people who had the Beach Boys playing the party. It was in a tent, a pre-super bowl party.

2. Commercials and Movies. There is a lot of dancing in front of the lens, these dancers know how to hit their marks and fill in the background. Knowing different styles helps and you don’t have to be excellent or super-talented to do it, just have to enjoy the paycheck.
I remember watching Madonna dance in the movie Dick Tracy, I looked over at the dancer next to her and … “hey, I know her!” Professional dancers in movies are very good, yet not the focus of the lens.

3. Uh … Dancers don’t get discovered. They work their butts off at the craft they’ve chosen. Most dancers are not stars. If you want to be a star — well, go into acting. Lot’s of actors are dancers too. Certainly Travolta has managed to squeeze a dance step into almost all of his movies.

4. It’s a free-lance life. Lot’s of your answers have been to get a side job as a teacher, that means a steady paycheck! Know that you’ll be moving from job to job.

5. Viva Las Vegas. Lot’s of dancing in Las Vegas, I know several “serious modern dancers” who’ve gone to there to be showgirls and even learned to skate. Three shows a night, four on the weekends.

Hey, you can do this. Learn how show business works. Move to a large city like Los Angeles, Miami or NYC. Look into the unions. Talk to some agents. Find the people who are working and ask them for help.

Your first good step was asking here in Answers, keep asking and working and … I’ll see you taking a bow sometime soon!

Maria asks…

Anyone know any good sustainable living websites?

Things like make a bee hive, bat box, grow wheat for bread, vegetable garden and such. I just want some tips for having a animal friendly garden area.

The Expert answers:

Www.attra.org

If you don’t live in wheat country, you will be hard pressed to grow proper wheat for bread but you will learn this eventually.

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