The green panel has become a permanent fixture at the Annual Glass Art Society Conference. Last year’s topic: Using Glass Studio as an Energy Source can be found in our chat forum for discussions on use of thermal cascades and utilizing waste heat in a hot shop for other purposes.

This year: the topic was community access studios. They benefit us all because we share resources, utilities, building material and equipment costs. Do you belong to a community access studio or do you own your hotshop? What are the benefits? Post your comments here.

Making Futures: The Crafts as Change Maker in Sustainably Aware Cultures will be held on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September 2011 at Dartington Hall on the inspiring Dartington Estate, Devon, UK.

The aims of the Making Futures research conferences are to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to significant and new developing agendas relating to global environmental and sustainability issues.

For more information and to attend the conference in Plymouth, UK

please follow this link:    http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/index.php?q=node/14

I wrote an article in the GAS Newsletter that will come out in teh fall regarding a road trip my friend Stevo and I went on, during which we visited 16 or 17 studios.  We measured the exhaust gases, temperature and pressure and were able to tune lots of furnaces to reduce consumption, emissions, noise, and cost.   I don’t have much time right now to type in all teh details, but check out the GAS newsletter in my technical article titled, “Road Trip.”

Eddie

Same look but many new features.