Getting Ready for Sunday

Friends:

Our logo arrived yesterday and we mounted it on our front doors. Today is a big day, the beautiful leaves and pipevines that Haideen and the box shop crew have been toiling on for months are coming to the site to be assembled and mounted! The Habitat Gardens team is assembling our constructed wetlands and we are getting ready for Sunday!

Laurie

Examiner Likes us!

Friends,

We spent the last few days staining the Ecocenter floor using a soy-based stain that not only looks beautiful and is also non-toxic. We welcomed our first resident to the building--a beautiful worm that I found rolling across the gorgeous sunset colored floor! I promptly added him/her to the constructed wetland!

We are getting closer to our grand opening event and we are in the final stretches. I am proud to state, after two days of solid rain, we have almost 2800 gallons in the tanks outside the building!

Also, check out this Sunday's examiner!


Laurie

The Tanks have Arrived

Friends: Yesterday was an incredible day on site. At 11:00am our three beautiful tanks, fresh off the factory line in Sacramento from American Tank Company, were delivered to our site.

We have 14000 gallons of storage capacity at the site. Each tank will get fed from three different roof levels and will purpose three different funtions: toilet feed and roof irrigation for our vegetative roof.

The tanks are absolutely beautiful--and as soon as they came to the site and were placed, the image of the ecocenter was sinched. The marriage between our tanks and the building has been made!

Water Independence is a beautiful thing to behold.

Laurie

The EcoCenter Roof is Ready for Birds!

The Electrical Vines of the EcoCenter

I wanted to share with you all a sneak peak of our beautiful vines that the amazing team at the Box Shop and All Around Electric are constructing for the EcoCenter. These leaves are central to a network of welded native California Pipe Vine Coverings for the exposed electrical conduit. The team has been workin for over three months to cut, weld, buff, and shine all of the vines and leaves!

The entire art project is being headed off by Haideen Anderson, my personal art hero and political ally for over fifteen years and it is an honor to work with her and see her in her glory!

The vines will be able to provide a beautiful illustration of how electricity is distributed-via branch distribution. Stay tuned, the leaves and vines are gorgeous and will be ready for the opening!

Laurie

Wow--there is a pond on the Living Roof!

EcoCenter Opens on People's Earth Day

Friends:

I am so proud to announce our grand opening on People's Earth Day this Year.

We still have our fair share of work before us over the next 20 days, and thanks to our partner team Habitat Gardens we are bring the classroom to life!

Stay Tuned and spread the word!

Laurie