simply forms of passive consumption. Along with preventive health care, gardening and various forms of craft, self-help and do-it-yourself (DIY) building is a major part of our economy, albeit largely hidden. A key task of green economic development is to make the invisible visibleand not necessarily by simply monetizing unpaid production. Feminist planner/historian Delores Hayden sees the greater integration of formal and informal spheres as happening via the domestication of public space. That is, the nurturing values of the household begin to be applied to the outside economy, not the other way around. The question is where construction work fits in this domestication of the built-environment. The importance of eco-infill development, building retrofit/renovation, natural building, green roofs, etc. means that many of the building trades, like the carpenters, must be ever more embedded in both community and landscape. The trades need to return to their origins in craft, but also be enriched by new social and ecological knowledge. They need to know more building science, but also more about materials and about the natural systems they try to fit within. The importance of eco-infrastructure to cities necessitates knowledge of natural wastewater treatment and hydrological cycles; of green roof construction; of edible landscaping, etc. The need to mine the waste stream makes builders, through deconstruction, into materials suppliers for themselves and secondary materials industry. The green building crafts need therefore to be increasing integrated into community and environmental life. In fact, many building skills are already widely distributed in the population, as evidenced by size of the DIY building supply market. The growing popularity of natural building systems like strawbale and cob construction is