PRESS RELEASESustainable design comes to Kathmandu!A community in Kathmandu, Nepal, has begun building an urban garden and outdoor art space for public enjoyment and education. The project is a collaboration between CATALiST design, a newly-founded sustainable design and community development organization (catalistdesign.org), and Sattya Media Arts Collective based in Kathmandu (sattya.org). They are currently in the last days of a fundraising campaign, and need your help to reach their funding goal.The project is called "Hariyo Chowk," which means "Green Commons" in Nepali. It's an urban garden and outdoor community arts space - a place for people to learn and share ideas about art and sustainable urban living, as well as a place to simply enjoy some greenery away from the chaos of the city. It's a very needed project for Kathmandu, which has almost no public green space at all and is rapidly developing into a concrete jungle. The garden is being built through the volunteer labor of community members, using mostly recycled and natural materials obtained from around the city. The project is also conceived as a forum for people to learn and teach one another. The process of designing and building the garden will include workshops and other community events meant to spread knowledge about organic agriculture, waste management, natural building, and other useful techniques within sustainable design.The Hariyo Chowk crew is raising money through Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform. They have 5 DAYS LEFT to reach their goal of $9,000, or they forfeit everything they've raised so far (about $7,000). Please support them by donating what you can at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sattya/hariyo-chowk. More detailed information about the project can be found on their Kickstarter page, as well as on the Hariyo Chowk Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/HariyoChowk. PHOTOS AND CAPTIONS* All renderings by Sagar Chitrakar, CATALiST intern* All photos by Sattya Media Arts Collective