The REDI Haus

The REDI Haus is the home of the Renewable Energy Development Institute. This building allows REDI to be a visible part of the Willits community and gives the opportunity to implement many of the practices that we advocate. Instead of tearing down existing structures or purchasing open land to develop, REDI purchased the Haus with the intention of renovating the existing structures in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Why "Haus"?

The REDI Haus is a hands-on, educational project intended to raise awareness of precious resources and the ways in which we can begin to bring our lifestyles more in balance with the world surrounding us. The multiplicity of considerations at play in such a project called for a unique name. "Haus" invokes the wholistic approach to building popularized by the German BauHaus movement, which considered the social, political, economical and artistic ideologies embodied in the buildings we construct. Further complementing these considerations is the philosophy of Bau-Biology, the study of the relationship between buildings and life. Bau-Biology seeks to actualize structures that have the most wholesome impact on the physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well being of the people who live or work in them.