Green, healthy buildings, sustainability planning and action
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Services - Green Planning and Programs
• Sustainable city planning
• Municipal green building programs, incentives and assessment tools
• Sustainable energy, water and waste infrastructure consultation
• Greenhouse-gas-neutral buildings and businesses
Example Projects
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Nan Hui Sustainable Demonstration Community - Shanghai Green design and technology consultant, Nan Hui Sustainable Demonstration Community, Shanghai, China, with Ramsay Worden Architects and CPC Group, Shanghai, 2004-05. |
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Meditation retreat facility & ecological reserve - Whidbey Island Design advisor, Earth Sanctuary, a meditation retreat facility and ecological reserve on Whidbey Island, Washington State, incorporating advanced restoration of wetlands habitat, environmental art and very small footprint construction. Work is underway on a 500 year vision (2001-2006) |
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Fitchburg Center, Wisconsin Project environmental and residential design advisor for Fitchburg Center, a new community in Wisconsin combining compact housing, a pedestrian core with high-tech employment and services, and environmental conservation planning. (1993-present) |
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Santa Monica Core team member, Sustainable Building Design Guidelines, The City of Santa Monica (With Sheltair Ltd., 1996-99), The product is a comprehensive set of environmental protection and sustainable design and building criteria adopted by the municipal government and incorporated into its municipal code. |
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Whistler Green Principal consultant, Whistler Green® Home Standard development. A trial of a locally-assessed green home standard applied to new homes, with the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Nita Lake Development Corp., 2003 |
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Seattle South Lake Union Former board member and projects committee co-chair, The Urban |
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H&M Carbon Neutral Principal consultant, Hartley and Marks/Paperblanks Publishers, Climate Change Neutral Program, a program to calculate and invest greenhouse-gas offset purchases for the business into sustainable development projects in South Asia. In progress, 2005. |
Environmental Institute, Seattle WA, a non-profit working with the Seattle City Administration and the private sector to advance sustainable urban development . The main project under David’s tenure was the Seattle South Lake Union Sustainability Guidelines for private sector developments (with Mithun Partners). The South Lake Union project was honoured by a BEST environmental business award for 2003."If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages, it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run".
Henry Thoreau
