MetroTimes profiles several local green buildings, including the
Student Services Center at Lawrence Technological University,
Affirmations in Ferndale and the Kresge Foundation's Troy headquarters.
Excerpt:
Green planners like
[Jim] Newman are hoping to convince municipalities to
change their codes to require or at least reward environmentally
conscious building projects. He's working with Birmingham, Rochester
Hills and Auburn Hills for starters.
"That's something we're looking at as a city," says Vincent Nathan, director of the Detroit Department of Environmental Affairs.
The
Kresge Foundation, for its part in the private sector, launched its
Green Buildings Initiative in 2003 and has since awarded 101 planning
grants totaling $6.2 million to nonprofits to design sustainable
buildings. Funds totaling about $7.2 million are committed to 42
nonprofit organizations that will be awarded when they become LEED
certified, says Kresge spokeswoman Cynthia Shaw. Affirmations received
such money for design and construction of the Ferndale site.
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