If teaching a course on restaurant layout and design, or a course where students have to come up with a restaurant concept and flesh it out as a means to synthesize all they have learned about restaurant management do them a favor and require them to do one using a completely sustainable building made from recycled materials (trash) learning from a cutting edge architect, Michael Reynolds, who formed Earthship Biotecture, http://www.earthship.net/.
Indeed this form of architecture is so advanced some of the structures are able to generate their own power, or collect their own water. Reynolds is currently working on a project that is building homes that will cost about $100/year from the standard electrical grid without sacrificing modern toys like flatscreen tv's and computers.
Check out some videos explaining the sustainable building technology at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbxhpG-Y4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRstVYF7wA
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/videos/earthshipvideos.htm
If you find yourself fast becoming a friend, join them on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/earthship
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