On this page, we will post the very latest information about the status of the Greener Greenbelt Initiative....
October 16, 2007
The charrette is now over, and Melanie Hennigan has created three rather large Powerpoints - with pictures - one about the adult charrette, one about the Artful Afternoon, and one about the children's charrette.
Get a PDF of the two reports....
Adult Charrette PDF
Artful Afternoon
Children's Charrette Report
July 25, 2007
The Greener Greenbelt Initiative (GGI) is kicking into high gear its outreach efforts to all courts of GHI and to the surrounding community of old Greenbelt . Week of July 20, our own Frank Debernardo, wrote an article for the News Review describing GGI's outreach effort. The purpose of the outreach effort is to give everyone an opportunity to learn about and come to the big brainstorming event, the Charrette, coming up at the end of September 28-30 at the Greenbelt Elementary School on Ridge Rd.
So we are looking for people to help spread the word among their friends and neighbors, by either knocking on doors, or hosting a small gathering to spread the word about the Charrette. If you are interested, please come to a training session, which GGI is holding to help with the outreach effort. The first is Monday, July 30 at 7:30 to 8:30pm and is repeated again on Saturday, August 11 at 11am to noon. Both trainings will be at the GHI Admin Building on Hamilton Place.
GGI will also have a table at the Coop Grocery store on 7/25 (4-8pm), 8/11 (10-2pm) and two other later dates. You are welcome to look us up there as well.
July 25, 2007
GGI is also the theme for the GHI Labor Day Parade Float and Booth, Frank Debernardo and Lora Katz will be working with GHI's Member and Community Relations Committee on ideas, planning it out and putting it all together. If you would like to help with this, please contact Frank at fdebernardo@aol.com.
The Emerging Green Builders held a design competition on Greenbelt. The competition ran from Dec 1, 2006 to May 1, 2007. The judging of the competition was held on May 10th and announced the same evening.
The jurors were: Nancy Solomon, Rick Schneider, Kim Pexton, David Lever, and Ashley Compton.
To view the original program summary, CLICK HERE.
Four teams of young architects submitted entries. We have made available PDF's (Acrobat Ver. 7.0-note file size) of the submissions, here...
- Team 2 Submission - 1st place (7.488 MB)
(Team Members: Christopher Peli, Quinn Evans|Architects, and Melissa Funkey, STUDIOS architecture)
- Team 1 Submission - 2nd place (4.431 MB)
(Team Members: Nubras Samayeen, Andrew Fix and Genevieve Jeryga-Lauva - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca LLP Architects)
- Team 3 Submission - 3rd place (4.207 MB)
(Team Members: Ramona Sonntag and Henrike Gaenss, WAAC, and Nashwell Hays, Hugh Jacobsen Architects)
- Team 4 Submission - 4th place (81 KB)
(Team Member: Matthew Hawkins, Newport Partners)
On June 3, 2007, our initiative champion, Carl Elefante, AIA, drafted an initial concept for an agenda for the charrette. You can download that draft agenda, in PDF format, HERE.
In preparation for our open house on April 28th, we prepared an informational tri-fold brochure with information about the initiative and a calendar of events leading up to the charrette. GET IT HERE (in PDF format).
In late March, Carl Elefante, AIA (the intiative's champion) assembled a PDF with general information about the initiative for potential volunteers. Download the PDF HERE!
In mid-February, Carl issued a "Call for Volunteers" with basic information about the need for chapter volunteers. You may download the PDF HERE!