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"green to go"                  Marian Keeler is trained as an architect and green building consultant

                                                  

great green resources:

Environmental Building News

Green Home Guide 

USGBC

GreenClips

The Pacific Energy Center

Learn about biomimicry 

England's BedZED Project 

Canada's Dockside Green 

Take the Footprint Quiz 

Solutions for Sustainable Living

Ann Arbor's Ecology Center

Spec Section 01350 

Funding Green Buildings

Green Guide for Health Care 

Healthy Building Network 

Green Materials Certification 

Precautionary Principle 

Recycled Content Products 

West Coast Green Conference 

Green Roofs 

Clean Cars 

Good Wood

      building green through:  

  • green plans
  • sustainable building priorities and goal setting 
  • green design charrettes 
  • green building materials selection
  • materials and IAQ research
  • writing on green building topics
  • LEED(R) documentation
  • green building consulting to project teams
  • lectures, presentations
  • green design in the schools--teaching kids about building sustainably for their own futures

 

 

 COMING SOON:  "GREEN TO GO" BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

and the VI badge of honor !  (has the Vinyl Institute heckled you?  email me)

 

 

Ruth Bancroft Gardens, Walnut Creek, California

(C) 2006, photos by Anthony Bernheim, FAIA, 



 BUILD REAL, BUILD GREEN !

 

green quotes:

 

"Opie, you haven't finished your milk.  We can't put it back in the cow, you know."  ~Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

~Ansel Adams

 ". . . [W]e are the generation fated to live in the most interesting of times, for we are now the weather makers, and the future of biodiversity and civilization hangs on our actions."

-Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers, Antlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2005