Monday, September 21, 2009

Sustainably Built – From Dying Local Forest


One of the key tenets of LEED certified building is to try to “source locally.”  Here’s an example where that was easy to do, but for a sad reason. The Ann Arbor District Library in Traverwood is sited within an environmental disaster zone.  The local forest is being eaten alive by an invasive species of bug that has attacked forests across a wide swathe of the midwest, killing millions of trees in their wake.


InFORM studio, the design architects for theSource: Home Design Find RSS Feed

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