Last month I had the opportunity to visit the MUSE School in Southern California. Located in a canyon between Calabasas and Malibu, the setting for the school is idyllic. Founded in 2006 by Suzy Amis Cameron and her sister Rebecca Amis, this marks the first year on the current campus, a 22 acre spread that [...]
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Site Visit: MUSE School (CA)
May 8th, 2012 
Eric Wilson Out with the New in with the Old
January 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few months back I had the opportunity to tour three LEED certified projects on three consecutive days. All three projects achieved LEED gold and were located in the greater Denver area. The following op-ed is a bit of a reflection on these visits and what it means to build green. They are listed in [...]
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Tags: Denver, EPA, LEED, Waste 
No Comments »Site Visit: Denver Public School’s First LEED Gold Campus
November 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson A week and a half ago, I attended the US Green Building Council Colorado Chapter’s Green School Summit. For my notes on the conference, click here. Held on the 35-acre Evie Garrett Dennis E-12, early childhood through 12th grade, though there is also a 2 year program on the campus (for nursing and other career [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Site Visits Tags: Colorado, Denver, Food, Green Schools, LEED, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic No Comments »Site Visit: EPA Region 8 Headquarters
November 3rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Located in Denver’s Lower Downtown (LoDo) neighborhood, the EPA’s region 8 headquarters occupies a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified commercial building which they moved into four years ago. Sitting at the corner of Wynkoop St and the 16th St. Mall, the building is adjacent to Union Station, Denver’s future home of [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Site Visits Tags: Energy Star, EPA, Green Roof, LEED, Mass Transit, Photovoltaic No Comments »Site Visit: Green Cremation, St. Petersburg Funeral Home Offers a Green Way to Go with World’s First Commercial Resomator
September 14th, 2011 Chris DeArmond After seeing several news stories – including one that was the most viewed article on BBC News, now with over 18 thousand “shares” – about an alternative cremation process to be offered at Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home in St. Petersburg, FL, I knew it was time for a site visit! After arriving, I spoke with its [...]
Posted in Green Economy, Green Products, Site Visits Tags: Chris DeArmond, Florida, Green Burial No Comments »Teaser: Green Cremation Offered at Florida Funeral Home
September 12th, 2011 Chris DeArmond Yesterday, I visited Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home in St. Petersburg, FL and learned why Resomation is the ultimate way to “go green.” Here are a few quick facts (if you have a weak stomach, skip the first two bullet points): Definition – Resomation is a patented process that
Posted in Site Visits Tags: Chris DeArmond, Florida, Green Burial, Lifecycle, Minnesota 2 Comments »Stopping by Fat Toad Goat Farm on A Snowy Evening
May 30th, 2011 Guest Author As a native Vermonter I’ve long had an affinity for a number of Vermont made food products. From Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to cheeses to micro-breweries, if it is made in Vermont, and I can either eat it or drink it, it’s almost a certainty that I’ll buy it. A Vermont product that recently [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Featured Posts, Guest Authors, Local Energy/Food, Site Visits Tags: Environment, Food, Jason Wheelock, Vermont 2 Comments »Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
March 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a warehouse, the structure is now home to some 38 non-profit organizations and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. According to the tour guide, the building was [...]
Posted in Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Biomimicry, Bus, Chemicals, Colorado, Denver, Interface, LEED, Trains, Water, Water Conservation No Comments »From Waste to Resource: Site Visit to the “Living Machine” at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary (Naples, FL)
January 6th, 2011 Chris DeArmond Since its establishment in 1954, the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary has become a natural wildlife attraction to more than 100,000 visitors annually. Despite accommodations being made in many areas to handle the growing visitor level, the wastewater from the restroom facilities remained a problem. To address the issue, a natural water treatment system known as a [...]
Posted in Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: Chris DeArmond, Florida, Population Growth, Waste, Wastewater, Water No Comments »Parking at the Greenest Lot in America
January 3rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Last week I wrote about “the greenest parking lot in the country”. While this seems like an odd concept, before I pulled into the lot the six large photovoltaic arrays and roughly dozen spinning vertical turbines convinced me that this LEED certified compound was different. Part product review, part site visit, I pulled into the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Site Visits Tags: Denver, LEED, Photovoltaic, Product Review, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »
