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Check out the new additions to our website:

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!


 

 

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.

To Download Slides of Previous Meetings, please visit our Meetings Page

 

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 your dues.

 

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!