The CAPACES Leadership Institute is a place of training and collaboration for the CAPACES network where farmwokers and immigrants’ rights movements’ leaders of today and tomorrow understand and embrace the path of the unlikely doing improbable to achieve amazing social change
substantial volunteer labor and no debt
The first certificated Passivehaus office building in the US. High quality construction including:
–R34 slab with polished floor
R43-57 exterior walls with high thermal mass masonry interiors walls
R108 Roof
0.6 Air exchanges per hour at 50kpa
Regionally Produced triple pane windows and doors
Natural ventilation for night flush cooling
High efficiency Energy Recovery Ventilator
Heat Pump for mechanical heating and cooling only when necessary
