Resources for Green Building
please submit your links to LeRoy Harvey

Please don't be too overwhelmed by all these resources!  While there are LOTS of ways to be green, sustainability is often very simple -- if not fun, enriching, and life-giving!

It's not that sustainability is impossible to achieve...
Indeed, it's the only thing that is possible.
 


Vincent's Room, Arles 1888

 

The links below will take you to wealth of ideas, organizations, and other resources that can help us go green.  The Pattern Language links can help us see the connections between people, places, and the interrelationships between the parts and the whole.


Organizations & Coalitions

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Green Communities On-Line

Click on the links below to see the full range of benefits for everyone (from Green Communities On-line)

bullet Investor Benefits of Going Green
bullet Developer/Owner Benefits of Green
bullet Resident Benefits of Green Housing
bullet Environmental Benefits of Green
bulletGreen Community Guidelines (pdf)
bullet Livable Communities Quiz (from Tom Stanton)

 

bulletSEEDS
bulletwww.ecoseeds.org  (from Tom Stanton)
bulletBioneers, for all things green
bulletwww.bioneers.org (from Tom Stanton)
bulletIntentional Communities Network
bulletwww.ic.org
bulletCo-housing Network (from Tom Stanton)
bulletwww.cohousing.org

 

A "Pattern Language"

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Short story about "A Pattern Language"

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Summary of Patterns

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Using Patterns to Guide Development (an example)

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More City Examples

bulletA Pattern Language for a Conservation Economy (from Tom Stanton)

Green Community Charrette Grants

Affordable Green Homes (PDF file)
reprint from Environmental Building News

MSHDA'S Supportive Housing Priorities (11/29)

Resource Efficient Home (An Urban Options exhibit "under reconstruction")

click here

The READ Project (Resource Efficient and Affordable Dwelling) (here)