Conservation Co-operative, Toward Sustainable Communities'99, RGB
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Overview
Resource Efficiency
- greywater recycling pilot in 8 units, shower -> toilet
- rooftop collection to rain barrels, cistern w/hand punp
- recycling program, 2 rooms per floor, 4 floors
- large composting capacity in courtyard and on rooftop patios
- studs and gypsum board with recycled content
- hallway carpet from recycled type I PETE plastics (pop bottles)
- infiltration pond for storm water management
- rooftop patios for gardening, 1 functional, 1 ornamental which will have a trellis, courtyard plots for functional, organic processes used
- organic food club
- recycled plastic balcony planter boxes
- use of linoleum and materials with low embodied energy.
- environmentally-friendly cleaning products tuck shop
- no dishwashers permitted
- landscape watering decreased by choosing indigenous vegetation
- use of "Open Source" or "Free" software for the electronic communicatons network, for example GNU/Linux
Last modified by Richard Guy
Briggs on November 4th, 1999.