| GreenClips.242 06.09.04 ANOTHER JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! Scroll down to our sponsors' section for details about a position at the City of San Francisco and other new announcements on conferences, products, and consulting services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CANADIAN COMPANY'S REFORESTED CAMPUS, 10 YEARS LATER In 1992, when Husky, a global supplier of molding equipment to the plastics industry, contemplated expanding its Ontario campus from 32 to 70 acres, president Robert Schad saw an opportunity to create a sustainable landscape that would help mitigate the company's greenhouse gas emissions. Husky worked with Toronto's PMA Landscape Architects and Greenery Unlimited, the company that had maintained the Husky landscape since 1978, to create a sustainable landscape plan. The concept included using no chemicals or gas-powered equipment, reforesting areas with native trees, and creating meadows of native grasses. After a decade, how does the Husky campus measure up to its sustainable aspirations? The soil remediation and reforestation process have been remarkably successful, and naturalized areas of the site are very well established. But parking lot islands have a sparse mix of native and nonnative species with little understory. And when Greenery Unlimited was replaced by a new maintenance firm, Salivan Landscapes, a manicured "suburban residential" look took hold, particularly near the building entrances. Salivan does adhere to the no-chemical rule and removes weeds manually, but it also removes dead leaves and branches, valuable organic material that, if left on site, would decay and replenish soils. Despite these minor failings, Husky has succeeded in creating a landscape that reflects the company's progressive environmental ethic. Landscape Architecture, June 2004, p 60, by Ren Thomas. [More: http://www.husky.ca/ehs/ehsindex.html] NEW HOUSING COMPETITION BASED ON CRADLE TO CRADLE PRINCIPLES The first international Cradle to Cradle Housing Design and Construction Competition is encouraging architects, designers and students to develop affordable, sustainable house designs based on the principles outlined in the book, "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. The competition will award cash prizes up to $5,000 in the professional and student categories. For university teams, first place prize is seven internships (including room and board) to participate in building their designs in Roanoke, Virginia, during the summer of 2005. Registration closes November 15, 2004, with submissions due by December 15. More: http://www.c2c-home.org. Interiors & Sources, May 2004, p 30, and Natural Home, Jul-Aug 2004, p 23. CARGO CONTAINERS: A KEY TO DENSITY, AFFORDABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY? The winning proposal in a nationwide competition last fall sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects would transform about 3,000 surplus shipping containers into 351 housing units as wells as retail, office, hotel and civic space. Containers would be stacked up to eight high around a central green at the rail station in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Mark Strauss, principal in New York City-based Fox & Fowle Architects, who came up with the proposal, believes that interlocking them can create inexpensive and rigid high-rise construction. "Because the containers are designed and made to interlock at their corners, they can be linked in three dimensions," he says. A standard 320-square-foot surplus shipping container costs as little as $600, or less than $2 per square foot. When containers are recycled into housing, not only is the material reused, but also the energy that was consumed once to transport the containers full of goods replaces the energy and materials that would be consumed to build the housing that they replace. A number of architecture firms are designing container homes. Manhattan-based LOT-EK, for example, placed a couple of shipping containers on a rooftop below the Empire State Building, punched out doors and windows, hooked it up to the power grid, and called it an apartment. LOT-EK has also transfigured a big cargo container into a house called a "mobile dwelling unit." Urban Land, May 2004, p 41, by William P. Macht (Fox & Fowle design); Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 May 2004, p G4, by John Bentley Mays (LO-TEK). [More: http://www.architects.org/shaping_communities/index.cfm?doc_id=116; http://www.lot-ek.com] ALLIED WASTE OFFERS LEED SERVICES FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT Allied Waste, the second largest waste management firm in the country, has developed a program which it takes on the responsibility of construction waste management. Allied Waste is offering the service in the Great Lakes region through SunSet Waste Services, and in the Northeast through BFI Waste Services. "What our waste management plan provides is one less concern for the contractor doing the LEED project," said Brian Skehan, LEED consultant for BFI's Northeast Region. At the beginning of each project, the team chooses between a source-separation and a commingled recycling plan. Allied Waste coordinates and marks recycling containers and educates the work force on the site. The team documents the weights and percentages of debris sent to a landfill; records are kept according to the parameters established by LEED Materials & Resources credit 2, for construction waste management. Allied Waste provides a "waste stream report" on a quarterly, monthly or weekly basis. Upon completion of the project, Allied Waste develops a cost analysis, "a valuable tool for estimators on future LEED projects," according to Skehan. Allied Waste does not charge a higher rate for this customized LEED reporting service. Skehan projects that Allied Waste will eventually introduce a similar waste management plan nationally. More: http://www.disposal.com; email: brian.skehan@awin.com. Environmental Building News, June 2004, p 4, by Jessica Boehland. GODDESS OF GARBAGE TURNS TRASH TO TREASURE Carol Tanzi, an award-winning interior designer in Burlingame, California, is appalled when clients throw out functional furnishings while redecorating. Keen on educating people about reuse and recycling, she created her alter ego, the Goddess of Garbage. The Goddess's projects include a children's recycling tutorial center for the Sunset Scavenger Company in South San Francisco. She won an American Society of Interior Designers award for decorating the principal's office at Palo Alto's AchieveKids School with old textbook spines. Tanzi is writing her first book, Let's Talk Trash, and publishes a newsletter about recycling and interior design. More: http://www.GoddessOfGarbage.com. Natural Home, Jul-Aug 2004, p 19, by Laurel Kallenbach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GreenClips is free of charge thanks to individual members and these sponsors: ARMSTRONG CEILING SYSTEMS http://www.armstrong.com/commceilingsna/article10790.html Armstrong offers an expanding portfolio of sustainable ceiling products. 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