
Noisy Water Living & Learning Community Center
A Community Center Built for a Resilient Future

Net-Zero Energy
South facing building(s) allow for passive solar heating & optimum angle for solar panels negating energy costs. Battery backups to keep the lights & heat on during major climate events.

Regenative Landscape Design
Permaculture/Regenerative Agriculture landscape design to provide food abundance, cycle nutrients and keep water and carbon in the trees & soil.

Carbon Sequestration
Buildings made from Hempcrete that sequesters Carbon into the structure from Hemp grown locally in Washington State.

BIPOC Land Trust Affordable Housing
Various styles of affordable housing on-site to support the housing crisis. Land Trust model that restores, regenerates and protects the land.

Water Conservation
A combination of graywater systems and rainwater catchment in order to lower water use while also providing water for irrigating the landscape and rooftop gardens.

Multi-Use Space
Art, Education, Dining, Convention space, Recreation Technology Sports, transportation hub and more. One place that houses something appealing to everyone in the family. All indoors
Why the Community Center
Whatcom County is in great need for a community center. There is a growing need to support safe spaces for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Immigration and Climate displaced people.
The Noisy Water Living & Learning Community Center aims to be a departure from the status quo. By using hemp to build and sequester carbon the living building promotes sustainable practices at the core.
Here's a rundown what the Noisy Water Living & Learning Community Center would include & provide for the community:
- Indoor Sports
- Arts Center
- Learning Spaces
- On-site Affordable Housing of Various Shapes and Sizes
- Rooftop Gardens and Edible Gardens
- Transportation Hub

Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge we are residing on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Lummi People. The Lummi People are the original inhabitants of Washington's northernmost coast and southern British Columbia. They lived in villages throughout this territory and continue to have an ongoing relationship with these areas. Since Time Immemorial they have celebrated life on their land, water ways and on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of their People to perpetuate their way of life. Please join us in taking a moment of silence as we honor their ancestors and as we acknowledge the past, present and future Lummi People as the original inhabitants of this land.
Contact Us
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