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2007 Green Innovation Award
This award application is due by October 31st, 2007
The application deadline has been extended to March 1st, 2008.
Register Now for our LEED Study Series
Habitat for Humanity Green Build Schedule:
IPFW Students, with the help of the Northeast Indiana
Green Build Coalition, have designed a Green Home for Habitat for
Humanity.
Click here for the build
schedule.
If you would like to volunteer to help build, please visit
VolunteerUp.com.
The Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition + IPFW’s
Center for the Built Environment + Habitat for Humanity thanks Hagerman
Construction Company for contributing $25,000 cash and $25,000 in
in-kind material and labor contributions to our Habitat for Humanity
sustainable residence project! Thank you, Hagerman! And we
congratulate you on your 100 year anniversary! May you thrive for
another hundred years!
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Meeting Location
Our next meeting:
March 6th, 2008: Tour of Sweetwater Sound's new
facility - Join us on a tour including some of the key people involved
in the design and construction of this new facility pursuing LEED Gold.
(LOCATION: Sweetwater Sound 5501 US Hwy 30 W Fort Wayne, IN 46818)
Fore more information on upcoming
meetings, visit our meeting page.
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To Download Slides of Previous
Meetings, please visit our Meetings Page
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JOIN THE NEIGBC
The NEIGBC needs your help. We are
applying for grants in order to expand the programs we offer,
however, in order to obtain these grants we need to show that we
have a substantial and active membership.
Many of you receive
e-mails about meetings, and as always, anyone is welcome to
attend. However, we can only count those individuals and
organizations listed on the
members page as they are the only ones who have paid their
dues and become supporting members of the NEIGBC.
The
process is simple, and membership is reasonable, only $20 for
individuals and $100 for businesses.
Click here to open a fillable form that can be printed and sent in with
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Thanks to everyone who attended the December
award breakfast despite the snowy weather. Congratulations to the
Green Innovator Award winners:
- Chain Reaction of Goshen -
Eric Saner, Director. They take donated
bikes and repair them. People can acquire one by donating some hours
of work in the repair shop. An offshoot of the project is one in
which people use the repaired bikes and have routes to pick up
recyclables from homeowners. Their are 3500 customers who have
signed up for the curbside recycling. The bikers who work for the
recycling program are often homeless and end up making between $10
and $12 per hour.
- Water Furnace
International, Fort
Wayne, Indiana for their new "Envision" geothermal furnace
- Bruce Ritchey,
President. Their new Envision Geothermal Unit won this award because
it is 500% efficient! That means that for every dollar you spend on
heating or cooling, you get five dollars worth of energy! It is the
most efficient and environmentally friendly heating and cooling
system in the world, and they live right here in Northeast Indiana!!
- Superior Water Conditioner, Fort
Wayne, Indiana - Charlie and Gloria Sanderson, Owners.
Forty-three years ago, Charlie Sanderson invented a product that
litterally saves the environment from toxic chemical waste. His
product prevents water from hardening inside of heating and cooling
equipment, so that no chemicals need to be added to achieve this
result. When chemicals are used, the resulting substance that must
be released from the equipment is toxic to the earth and us! With
Charlie and Gloria's product, the resulting substance is just water.
This award was given for 43 years of providing a product that
continues to be a green innovation today!
Honorable Mentions went to:
- CRS, Construction Recycling Solutions,
Fort Wayne, Indiana - Candace Imbody, President. CRS recycles
drywall scraps, cardboard, non-treated wood, vinyl siding, and
tear-off shingles. All of these are ground up and made into new and
usable products instead of being added to the landfills. When these
product scraps are thrown into a landfill they create off-gases that
are poisonous for us to breathe. When they are ground up and re-made
into other products, they nourish the earth and environment.
- Earth Source, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Daniel Ernst, Vice President, and lead landscape architect. Earth
Source, under Dan's leadership, is a true steward of the land,
dedicated to sustainability as it applies to design and preservation
of our native landscapes. Dan's designs work to protect our drinking
water, and pollution of our waterways, to name just a few. We are
grateful for the work he does, for his company, and for his
educational contributions in the area of sustainable thinking.
- Morrison Kattman Menze, Inc, Fort Wayne,
Indiana - Michael McKay, Partner. Mike's innovation is education
and pushing the idea and need of green architecture/sustainable
design to every client on every project he designs. He is the head
architect of the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center, which will
be one of the first platinum LEED certified buildings in Indiana.
Merry Lea is located just outside of Wolf Lake and hwy 33, north of
Fort Wayne.
Here is the new NEIGBC logo -
Congratulations to Catherine Rong!
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