Wing III · The Society
Growing globally from the block.
Earth Protection Society is not a brand laid over other people's supply chains. It is a charter: what the block consumes, the block accounts for — materials, electricity, buildings and work. The client pays for everything, so the land, power and product the block builds stay in the neighbourhood. Use the menu for the full systems index.
Mission
“Growing Globally From The Block.”
Here in the U.S. this is the only place they gave us — so we will use it to align the earth with nature in this new age, and in many more to come, forever. Every project starts on one block, with one client, one technician and one locally owned plant. That is how a neighbourhood becomes a network, and a network becomes a global pattern of sovereign, nature-aligned work.
Brief 01
Closed-Loop Urban Metabolism
Every output of one process is booked as the input of another. Waste heat, greywater, organics and scrap steel circulate inside a single metabolic ledger held at the block scale.
- Shop-floor waste heat recovered into the domestic hot-water loop of the adjacent residences.
- Greywater polished on site through constructed reed beds, reused for wash bays and tree pits.
- Organics digested locally; biogas trimmed into the flex-fuel blend used by the range extender.
- Aluminium and steel offcuts re-melted in the neighbourhood foundry, never leaving the district.
91%
Material recirculation rate
Brief 02
Off-Peak Battery UPS & Load Defection
The campus buys electrons when nobody else wants them. LiFePO4 cabinets charge in the small hours, carry the site through peak pricing, and double as a seamless uninterruptible supply.
- 1.8 MWh of LiFePO4 across modular cabinets, cycled between 15% and 90% state of charge.
- Online double-conversion UPS topology: zero-transfer-time protection for the mastering suite.
- Peak-shaving controller defects up to 74% of billed demand charges away from the utility.
- Grid-forming inverters allow islanded operation of critical loads for 36 hours.
74%
Peak demand defected
Brief 03
LEED Platinum Community Standards
Buildings are held to LEED Platinum not as a plaque but as an operating floor — commissioned annually, published openly, and written into every tenancy agreement on the block.
- Mass-timber and reclaimed-brick structure with a measured 62% reduction in embodied carbon.
- Triple-glazed envelope, heat-recovery ventilation, no fossil combustion for space conditioning.
- Daylight autonomy above 75% in all workshop and studio floors.
- Annual re-commissioning with public dashboards for energy, water and indoor air quality.
62%
Embodied carbon avoided
Brief 04
Local Technician Job Creation
Sovereignty is a labour question. Drivetrains, batteries and audio hardware are built, serviced and re-manufactured by technicians who live within cycling distance of the shop.
- Four-year paid apprenticeship covering high-voltage safety, e-axle service and battery diagnostics.
- Open service manuals and tooling — every vehicle repairable by any certified local shop.
- Re-manufacturing line keeps end-of-life packs and axles in the local economy.
- Wage floor pegged to regional housing cost, reviewed publicly each year.
128
Technician roles created
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