Upcoming Event! Sustainable Building Innovations Expo & Awards April 7th, 1-5 pm
Ashurst Hall (Building 11), Northern Arizona University
In This Issue... Innovations Expo & Awards Ceremony!
This year, the Sustainable Building Program will be adding a new twist to the annual Sustainable Building Award Ceremony with the addition of an Innovations Expo! The Expo will include vendor booths, a student poster competition and educational sessions. There will also be displays of the awarded projects, tiny houses to tour and a bingo game!
The goal of the Expo is to showcase innovative sustainable building approaches and technologies that local homeowners, designers and contractors may not know about. We hope to spread the word and increase awareness about these new sustainable products and methods with the building and real estate community.
We are excited to be working with our event partners Green NAU, NAU Green Jacks and Hope Construction to bring you this event!
More information on hosting a booth, sponsoring the event or participating in the poster competition can be found here.
Innovative Product and Service Booths-
Learn more about new sustainable building products like Earth-Friendly Block, an insulated concrete form that is made from 87% locally-collected post-consumer expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) and ThermoDrain, a drain water heat recovery system that captures heat from waste water! Representatives from Rooftop Solar and Central Arizona Supply will be highlighting innovations in their product lines, Northern Arizona Pollinator Habitat Initiative will be showcasing their efforts and more!
Tiny Houses-
Come learn about tiny house construction and permitting when you visit the tiny houses outside the event!
Photo: Hope Construction's Tiny House will be awarded at the Ceremony and will be open for tours.
Educational Sessions-
During the Expo, educational sessions on topics such as off-grid living, construction waste recycling and reuse, and how energy efficiency, comfort and good indoor air quality are related, will be offered.
Melisa Camp, a realtor and sustainable real estate educator from Phoenix, will be speaking about how agents, home owners, lenders and appraisers can work together to sell homes with energy efficient, green, sustainable and smart home features for a higher price. She will also be hosting a booth, with information about the workshops her company, Elite Education, provides for real estate professionals on sustainable building topics.
Student Poster Competition-
As part of the Expo, a student poster competition is being held. Students were tasked with identifying existing innovative solutions to sustainable building issues that may not have reached the building industry in our community, and presenting them in
poster format. Prizes of $300, $200 and $100 will be awarded for 1st - 3rd place submissions. Learn from these research projects and then cast your vote for your favorite poster! More information about how to participate in the competition is here.
Displays of Awarded Projects-
Twenty-five projects will be awarded this year! Learn from the owners, designers and builders that have made these projects happen! Awardees will be presenting information about their projects in informal table displays and will be available to answer your questions about the methods and materials that were used as well as the lessons learned.
Awards Ceremony-
The Awards Ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate the great work that was done to realize the projects that were certified by the Sustainable Building Program in the past year. Join us in recognizing the creativity, hard work and dedication that saw these projects through to completion.
Stay tuned for the March CCSBP newsletter that will highlight the projects that will be awarded.
Announcements
The Importance of Beauty Thursday, March 1st 2018, 6pm-7:30pm
Montoya Community Center
245 N Thorpe Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
What is the meaning of beauty and how has this meaning changed throughout time? What does beauty mean to our culture?
Dr. Sandra Lubarsky states: “Beauty is not a mere, sentimental human opinion…it’s what we name those experiences of life that encourage and support freshness and zest so that life can continue.”
Join Friends of the Rio on Thursday, March 1st as we hear from Dr. Sandra Lubarsky on the importance of beauty and how our disconnect with beauty is part of the story of how we have been talked out of caring for the natural world.
Sandra B. Lubarsky is a writer and retired professor whose research interests focus on the intersection of aesthetics and sustainability. She founded the master’s program in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University and directed the Sustainable Development program at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.
Small is Beautiful- A Tiny House Documentary Sunday, March 11th
6:00 pm
Orpheum Theater, 15 West Aspen Street
Small is Beautiful – follows four people as they try to gain independence by building their own tiny house, but their desire to live tiny is more difficult than they imagine.
The Arboretum at Flagstaff is hiring for several environmental education-related positions this summer! Position descriptions can be found on the website (link below), including Summer Camp Assistant Manager, Summer Camp Lead Educator, and Environmental Education Intern.
Coconino Cooperative Extension has a chance to bring on another AmeriCorps member through the University of Arizona. This is a 300 hour position and would assist with school gardens, community gardens, and food systems. The position will start 3-26-18 and end 8-12-18.
For information contact:
Hattie Braun
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Coconino Cooperative Extension
2304 N. 3rd St., Flagstaff, AZ 86004
Phone: (928)773-6118
Fax: (928)774-1860 hbraun@cals.arizona.edu
Fix-It Clinic
March 3rd, 10 am - 1 pm
Joe Montoya Senior Center, 245 N. Thorpe Rd.
The Fix-it Clinic is simple idea. Bring in an item in need of repair and our volunteer fixers will do their best to fix it. What kind of items can you bring? Toy, electronics, clothing, small furniture/appliances, etc.
KIDS WELCOME: There will also be a station at the Fix-it Clinic where kids can help take apart and recycle unfixable items.
If you are interested in volunteering as a fixer, contact Maggie Twomey at mtwomey@flagstaffaz.gov or 928-213-2144.
A series of 4 workshops on high-altitude gardening with with Penn & Cord Parmenter
March 24th and 25th
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church 1601 N. San Francisco St.
Mountain Food Growing 101 – $65 Top 10 Vegetables for the Mountains – $40 Passive Solar Greenhouse Growing – $40 Integrated Pest Management and Companion Planting – $65
Building Planter Pots for Pollinators
March 31st, 10-11:30AM
Join our last winter workshop and come learn from The Arboretum’s Horticulturist, Gayle Nance, about gardening in planter pots with native plants to attract and support pollinators.
You will learn about what’s in your potting soil and how to design and maintain your planter!
Cost is $10 for the general public, $5/students or FREE to Willow Bend and Arboretum members.Workshop is open to all but designed for adults and children ages 10 and over. Secure your spot by signing up online or calling our office (928) 779-1745
Seed Swap
March 9th, 4-7 pm
Coconino County Cooperative Extension
2304 N. Third St.
Seeds are a great way to share our local food heritage.
How to participate:
- Bring seeds if you have them (veggies, herbs, flowers, Arizona natives)
- Provide information on seed variety, year collected, location grown, tips from your personal experience.
- Bring envelopes in which to package seeds to take home and a pen to label your seeds.
New to gardening? No seeds to exchange? No problem. Everyone will leave with new seeds in their pocket.
After swapping seeds at the seed exchange, you can visit and signup for the Grow Flagstaff Seed Library located at the extension office.
Science Saturdays: Renewable Energy
March 3rd, 9AM-1PM
Join Willow Bend, Prometheus Solar, Arizona Wind for Schools and Flagstaff Skylights by JKC Inc. for a Science Saturday that is all about renewable energy! Design and build your own wind turbine, play with solar powered devices, create “sun” art, generate your own energy with our “power” bike, explore a Solatube, enjoy delicious solar oven s’mores, and more!
Science Saturday is an event held on the first Saturday of every month from 9am-1pm. Each month is focused on a different theme and each event offers fun and educational hands on activities. This event is FREE and open to the public. No need to RSVP, you are welcome to join anytime between 9am-1pm
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