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GOAT Male American Ski Racer Bode Miller Partners with Affordable Natural Homebuilding Startup Geoship

05/09/2023 by Susan von Seggern

Bode Miller photo: Geoship Create the Futre You Imagine
Nevada City, CA/Big Sky, MT – May 2, 2023 – The most successful American male ski racer of all time, Bode Miller, has become an investor and strategic advisor in Geoship — to address the climate-housing challenge and help people live closer to nature and community — starting in mountain towns.

Miller notes, “I was raised off the grid, in the solitary nature of the woods. So much of who I am today is the direct result of my upbringing. Now as the father of eight, I want my kids to have similar experiences. In 2019 Morgan and I chose to move our family to Montana. Many have expressed a desire to do the same with their own families. Unfortunately for many, this lifestyle is out of reach due to the recent rapid rise in housing prices. Perhaps it is time to start thinking outside of the box to make mountain living more accessible to families. I’m excited to partner with Geoship to address the climate-housing challenge in a way that will help people live closer to nature and community — starting in mountain towns.”

Geoship founder and CEO Morgan Bierschenk adds, “Bode and I are dads on a mission to raise our kids closer to nature and village life. Geoship is more than a new construction technology — we’re building an economic engine for the regenerative village future. Whether winning six Olympic medals or being a father of eight — Bode is a force of nature and puts 100% into what he does. So, it’s an honor to begin this journey with Bode, to remove some of the barriers families face in building homes in harmony with nature.”

Geoship’s ‘first principles’ approach to home manufacturing combines the most efficient geometry and material science with 21st-century manufacturing technology. Nature’s strongest structure, the geodesic dome, is combined with a breakthrough in bioceramic materials — enabling healthy natural homes that cost half as much as conventional homes, have a 90% smaller carbon footprint, and have a design life of 500 years.

Bioceramic domes are combined with a digital space for communities to form and democratize the village design/build process. Villages are distinct from housing developments in that they’re cultural places designed and built with community participation. Geoship is transitioning into a multi-stakeholder cooperative — customers and nature stewards will own up to 50% of the company. This combination of a revolutionary housing product, business model, and ownership structure enables deep impact on a level never before possible.

The company is continuing towards its ‘Earthshot’: To make the best home on earth, the most affordable one, and scale manufacturing to one million ceramic domes per year. The recently revealed prototype is the world’s first ceramic dome.

Bierschenk concludes, “Our Nevada City prototype dome has attracted interest from architects, artists, engineers, developers, and dome lovers from over 60 countries. Thanks to platforms like Republic and Wefunder, the right to invest in world-changing private tech companies is no longer limited to accredited investors. We invite skiers, snowboarders, mountain communities, artists, climate advocates, impact investors, and nature lovers to join Bode Miller and our crew of over 2,000 visionary impact investors in building a more beautiful world.

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About Geoship SPC:
Geoship SPC is a leading innovator in next-generation homes, featuring a unique combination of eco-friendly ceramic materials and geodesic dome structures. The company grew from the vision of its two founders, Morgan Bierschenk and Bas Kools, to address some of the greatest challenges of our time: affordable housing, climate change, chronic disease, and social isolation. Investment information for Geoship’s current funding round can be found at Republic.com/Geoship (see terms and conditions at republic.com) or www.Geoship.is.

About Bode Miller:
Father, Husband, Learner, and Teacher. Winner of six Olympic Alpine skiing medals. Co-Founder @peakskis

Filed Under: Architecture, Business, Entrepreneurial, Green, Tech

Geoship Unveils Bioceramic Geodesic Dome Prototype, Announces ‘Earthshot’ Mission: To Make the Best Home the Most Affordable Home

04/10/2023 by Susan von Seggern

Sustainable Housing Vision Powers Community-First Fundraising Campaign

Geoship InteriorMarch 23, 2023 – Nevada City, CA – Geoship, the leader in next-generation affordable homes, announced that it has built an engineering prototype structure on its design and manufacturing testing ground here.

The company is continuing towards its ‘Earthshot’ mission: To make the best home on earth the most affordable one while scaling manufacturing to one million homes per year (faster than Tesla Motors.) The recently revealed world’s first fully bioceramic geodesic home comes as they have launched a community-first funding round on Republic.com. The round is open for a limited time. Since its launch in 2019, Geoship has received over 10,000 dome preorders, including over 500 with paid deposits. The company currently has over 2,000 investors. Prospective partners are invited to learn more at: www.republic.com/geoship.

Geoship’s ‘first principles’ approach to home manufacturing combines the most efficient geometry, materials, and manufacturing methods. The world’s strongest known structure, the geodesic dome, is combined with a breakthrough in chemically bonded ceramic materials developed at US National Labs. The unique, eco-friendly combination uses naturally found materials. It enables homes that cost half as much as traditional structures, have a 90% smaller carbon footprint, and are designed to last up to 500 years.

Using injection molding, a popular manufacturing modality never before used in home building, Ceramic domes can be rapidly manufactured and assembled on-site, maximize material efficiency, and are ultra energy efficient and resistant to earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and fires.

While the domes can be built as individual units or clusters, Geoship sees villages of the future materializing from the digital space. Geoship domes will be conceived in virtual reality by networked communities, then built with a shared vision for common areas, permaculture, and community self-sufficiency. The domes even benefit from known health benefits related to natural light, curved shapes, and healthy natural materials.

Geoship founder and CEO Morgan Bierschenk stated, “Millions of homebuyers want to leave the city and live closer to nature and community – in affordable, sustainable, ultra-modern, natural homes. Ceramic domes and regenerative villages uniquely serve this emerging market. Our Nevada City prototype dome has attracted interest from architects, artists, engineers, developers, and dome lovers from over 60 countries. Thanks to platforms like Republic, the right to invest in world-changing private tech companies is no longer limited to accredited investors. Through our community-first funding campaign, we’re inviting purpose-aligned individuals worldwide to join our Earthshot. Investment in this round is open to everybody; we encourage prospective customers and investors to join our exciting mission and build the regenerative future of home!”

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About Geoship SPC:
Geoship SPC is a leading innovator in next-generation homes, featuring a unique combination of eco-friendly ceramic materials and geodesic dome structures. The firm grew from the vision of its two founders, Morgan Bierschenk and Bas Kools, to address some of the greatest challenges of our time: affordable housing, climate change, chronic disease, and social isolation. Investment information for Geoship’s current funding round can be found at Republic.com/Geoship (see terms and conditions at republic.com) or www.Geoship.is.

Filed Under: Architecture, Business, Real Estate

Geoship, a Leader in Zero-Carbon Dome Homebuilding Reopens StartEngine Equity Crowdfunding Raise After Raising Over $100k in 5 Days

02/12/2020 by Susan von Seggern

Nevada City, CA – February 10, 2020 – Geoship is introducing the bioceramic geodesic dome to the world. The technology merges the work of two of history’s greatest inventions — Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Geometry and Professor Rustum Roy’s Ceramic Crystal Chemistry. Fuller compared the domes they were building in the 60’s and 70’s to “wooden spaceships” — the right shape built with the wrong material. He predicted it would be 50-100 years before the material science would catch up to his new geometry. Right on cue, in 2004, the general theory and compositions of Roy’s ceramic crystal chemistry was announced. Geoship brings together the geometry and materials that maximize efficiency and believes that bioceramic domes will replace wood boxes as the ‘bread and butter’ of 21st century home building.

To further this vision of affordable regenerative housing, Geoship, who built their initial dome prototype in 2015 and has been steadily bootstrapping since, launched their first foray into public fundraising with a crowd investment ask on StartEngine.com on January 3, 2020 and achieved their goal by January 8. With 140 investors plus another 200 on the waitlist, the company has increased their funding goal to allow more investors to participate Geoship will be accepting investment at https://www.startengine.com/geoship.

Founder and CEO Morgan Bierschenk was surprised by the speed of the campaign, noting, “We were astounded we hit the goal so quickly. People are just ready for an epoch shift — we’re transforming capitalism and the construction industry! Equity crowdfunding is the obvious choice for the new wave of multi-stakeholder companies. Old school capitalism makes rich people richer, and everybody defers responsibility, while our planet pays the price. We’re shifting that paradigm by making our seed investment widely accessible, and distributing equity to customers and the Earth.”

The company aims to reshape one of the biggest industries on earth – the $24T global construction industry. Geoship is structured as a Social Purpose Corporation and a multi-stakeholder cooperative — customers and nature will be major owners in the company, in addition to investors and employees.

The multi-stakeholder ownership model was almost completely unknown and unprecedented when Geoship started in 2014. The JOBS act of 2016, opened the floodgates for equity-based crowdfunding, which Bierschenk says is “the obvious choice for purpose-driven multi-stakeholder companies.” Until then, early-stage investing was limited to select accredited investors and Venture Capital firms. In 2018, this revolution in capitalism continued, when Brian Chesky wrote a letter to shareholders declaring that Airbnb would serve multiple stakeholders. VC’s are also taking notice, as Jim Breyer, the VC who first invested in Facebook, just invested in Goodmoney, a similarly modeled company that just raised $34M to disrupt banking. Marc Benioff, the founder/CEO of SalesForce, recently announced that capitalism as we know it is dead and the multi-stakeholder world is coming.

Geoship first entered the mainstream housing discussion in 2019 when they partnered with Zappos to help address the homelessness crisis around its downtown Vegas headquarters. Geoship, Zappos, and other partners aim to demonstrate a scalable model now, working toward transcending homelessness across the nation by 2030. These types of ground breaking projects and regenerative villages are what Geoship domes are intended to inspire.

In addition to a new business model, and a multi-decade romance with “Bucky Domes,” potential buyers and investors are excited about a number of the Geoship home’s advantages. These include:

All-Ceramic Composites
Bioceramic domes bypass all conventional building materials. The framing, insulation, and panels are 100% bioceramic composite materials. The ceramic is entrained with air to make insulation. The ceramic is combined with basalt and hemp fiber to form the panels and framing.

Affordable
Estimated go-to-market turnkey prices will be $45K to $230K (depending on size). This price estimate includes everything: delivery, permitting, installation, mechanical systems, interior finishing, appliances, and even electrochromic glass for privacy and passive solar heating/cooling. Bioceramic domes are a mass production technology that enables the leap onto a new affordability curve.

Resilient
Ceramic composites are fireproof to 2,300F. They provide no food for mold or insects. The dome structure distributes stresses and strains perfectly, making it the most earthquake-proof and hurricane-proof structure known to man. Bioceramic domes are engineered to last for over 500 years. There is nothing to rot, rust, or deteriorate. They can be repaired and resurfaced with the same ceramic material.

Zero-Carbon
The precast ceramic panels could actually sequester more CO2 than was released in their production. The raw minerals can be harvested from seawater desalination plants, sewage treatment plants, and other non-toxic waste stream sources. Old bioceramic panels can be recycled into new bioceramic panels, or pulverized and used as fertilizer.

Nature Technology
The chemical composition of GEOSHIP bioceramic is similar to bone and shells. The same material is now revolutionizing the orthopedic industry as fast-cure bioactive bone cement. Ancient civilizations used similar ceramic materials to build sacred temple complexes like the great pyramids of Giza.

Health Optimizing
Bioceramic domes mimic the natural light, water, and electromagnetic environment. The design uses earthing floors, natural spectrum light, and vortex water to restore the conditions that humans evolved with on Earth. The high dielectric ceramics and fractal geometry function like a stone circle or a pyramid. Bioceramics reflect >80% of radiant heat and emit high far-infrared light. Professional athletes are now using bioceramic powders in clothing because the far-infrared light catalyzes the body’s natural healing process.

In addition to these amazing and timely benefits, investors should note that homebuilding is ripe for modernization, and Geoship is an early adopter for a product that has an enthusiastic and growing niche market. Additionally, the company boasts a strong team and partnerships – the founding crew has deep experience in human-centered design, CNC mold making, and green ceramic manufacturing. Geoship is dedicated to a revolution in affordable regenerative village architecture — to reconnect human communities and the natural world.

Geoship enters the market as a visionary community building brand. It partners with corporations and cities to transcend homelessness — generating awareness for its evolutionary technology and business model. Geoship serves ecologically and spiritually focused customers who envision a world that works for 100% of humanity. Their ultimate market is affordable regenerative homes in next-generation communities around the world. For those excited by Geoship’s mission and would like to join the Geoship journey, please visit https://www.startengine.com/geoship.

Filed Under: Architecture, Entrepreneurial, Green, Tech

Joshua Tree returns as UFO enthusiast destination with CONTACT in the DESERT, the community’s premiere event, returning August 8-11

07/10/2014 by Susan von Seggern

joshuatreestarrysky-sliderWith the popularity of television shows such as “Ancient Aliens,” UFO enthusiasts hunger for more! Once attracting thousands of UFO enthusiasts, Joshua Tree, California, is rejoining the list of top UFO tourism destinations along with Area 51 northwest of Las Vegas, and Wiltshire east of London, England, due to its long history of sightings and the popular CONTACT in the DESERT event now in its second year, taking place, appropriately, during the Perseid Meteor Showers.

Called the “premiere UFO convention” by the LA Weekly, visitors to Joshua Tree who attend the CONTACT in the DESERT event from August 8-11 will be able to enjoy lectures, panels, workshops, and fieldwork experiences with some of the top UFO experts in the world including Chariots of the Gods author Erich von Daniken, “Ancient Aliens” star Giorgio A. Tsoukalos and radio host George Noory of “Coast to Coast Radio AM.”… Read More

Filed Under: Architecture, Events

V-SCAPE at Joe’s Restaurant and The Architect’s Newspaper presents Artists X Architects featuring Lorcan O’Herlihy, Billy Al Bengston, Laddie John Dill, Patrick Tighe and many more, curated by Tibby Rothman

05/24/2012 by Susan von Seggern

V-SCAPE or Venice – Surrounding Communities Art, Performance and Events, noted journalist and curator Tibby Rothman’s organization, along with Joe’s Restaurant have partnered in 2012 to present bimonthly art events at the four star Venice eatery. The next exhibit, Artists X Architects, opens with a free public reception on June 5, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Joe’s Restaurant, 1023 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice CA 90291.

Also presented by The Architect’s Newspaper, Artists X Architects has matched 11 artists with 11 architects and had them select one piece from each other’s work. During an exchange of studio visits, the artists and architects each selected a single work from one another to be exhibited side-by-side.

The artist X architect pairings in the show include: Larry Bell X Lorcan O’Herlihy, Billy Al Bengston X Neil M. Denari, Casper Brindle X Andreas Froech, Huguette Caland X Mark Mack, Laddie John Dill X Kulapat Yantrasast, Ned Evans X David Hertz, Alexis Smith X Lawrence Scarpa, Barbara T. Smith X John Frane, Laurie Steelink X Erla Dogg Ingjaldsd6ttir/Tyggvi Thorsteinsson, De Wain Valentine X Patrick Tighe and Jennifer Wolf X Dwayne Oyler/Jenny Wu.

Invite for Artists X Architects Event at Joe's Restaurant June 5

Invite for Artists X Architects Event at Joe’s Restaurant June 5

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Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Events, Food/Wine

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