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Green Build Resource Center Monthly Panels
SANTA MONICA
Ever wonder how your home, your neighbor's home or the building across the street relates to the idea of neighborhood sustainability? Want to learn on how to make your neighborhood sustainable?
Green Building Resource Center has invited Donna Freiermurth from Cohousing Magazine and Lara Morrison from Los Angeles Eco-Village to speak at this September panel.
Ms. Freiermuth is the editor of Cohousing Magazine, the online monthly publication of the Cohousing Association of the United States. She will be identifying the sustainable benefits of cohousing and specific examples of cohousing communities.
With her experiences in coordinating Los Angeles Eco-Village through LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) and managing multi-family buildings in the Eco-Village community, Ms. Morrison will be presenting an overview of Eco-village, the LEED-ND criteria in relationship to Los Angeles Eco-Village, and sustainability aspects of neighborhoods.
WHEN: Tuesday September 9, 6:30-8:30 PM
WHERE: Santa Monica Public Library - Multi- Purpose Room, 2nd Floor, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
This event is free of charge and open to the public. For more information please contact the Santa Monica Green Building Resource Center: gbrc@globalgreen.org, 310.452.7677. RSVPs appreciated - please click here to RSVP.
NEW ORLEANS
LEED for Homes - Sustainable Standards for Residential Green Building in our Region: This month's discussion will outline the USGBC LEED for Homes standards of green building, giving examples of successes and challenges in the New Orleans area. The panel will be moderated by Global Green Director Beth Galante with presentations by Daniel Winkert and Sarah Howell of Williams Architects, Global Green Project Manager Mike Lopez, and architect Coleman Coker of buildingstudio NOLA.
WHEN: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 5:30-7:30 PM
Global Green is excited to expand its partnerships in the sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans and Louisiana to now include not only the AIA- New Orleans Chapter, but the U.S. Green Building Council - Louisiana Chapter. We are also excited to announce that our monthly panel discussions have generated such widespread interest that we've outgrown our space at the Green Building Resource Center, and will now be presenting the panels at the Contemporary Arts Center each month. Our Resource Center remains open to serve the public's sustainable building needs every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10am – 3pm, and on Saturdays by appointment.
WHERE: Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA. 70130
The panel is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Heidi Jensen at the NOLA Green Building Resource Center: hjensen@globalgreen.org, 504-525-2121.