OUROBOROS SOUTH & OUROBOROS EAST

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November/December 1975
By Wilson Clark 
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"We've planned Ouroboros East to be more than just a house or an educational program," says Professor Holloway. "It's a place where people can learn about our energy conservation systems, and then use the workshop to build their own."

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City Administrator Thomas Kelley is just as enthusiastic. "We're entering a new age . . . an age in which people all over this country will have to learn, once again, to be at least partly selfsufficient. Since most of us currently live and work in cities, it's important that we begin to develop our new technologies right now and right in the middle of our urban area. And that's exactly what Ouroboros East is designed to do."

Yes, but can other big-city inner-core neighborhoods afford to set up Ouroboros East projects of their own? Or, to put the question another way, can they afford not to?

The cost of renovating the Laurel Avenue house in St. Paul (since almost all the labor and much of the material was free) added up to peanuts. Peanuts, at least, when compared to federal Energy Research and Development Administration programs which—so far—have concentrated on the construction from scratch of new "dream" houses which always wind up with price tags of more than $100,000 apiece. And how many of us—let alone those among us who live in depressed innercity neighborhoods—can afford a $100,000 home?

If solar energy and other forms of "soft" technology are to become major forces in American life—as they must—it will probably be people like the architecture students at the University of Minnesota, rather thin the ERDA-funded projects, that make it all possible.

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