LIVING WITH THE SUN - VALLEY STYLE
Solar and Sustainability in the Valley
An introduction to the upcoming Valley tour of solar, Green and sustainable buildings on Oct 24 and 25.
Location- City of Scottsdale LEED Certified Senior Center on Granite
Reef Rd. just north of the intersection of Granite Reef Road and McDowell intersection - Scottsdale.
Date/Time: Oct. 15, 2008 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
LIVING WITH THE SUN - VALLEY STYLE -
is the Valley's part in the Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour where. last year 150,000+ people nationwide visited buildings and people to see solar, sustainability and Green in action and meet the people who have incorporated sustainability and solar into their lives.
Last month we had a great presentation from Donna DeFranceso and Steve Preibi on their award winning residence (which will be a part of the 2009 Tour).
This meeting/talk has 3 of the owners that are participating as part of the 18 sites that will be on the tour. Each will share their experiences, approaches, and technologies in a lively and informative night that is a precursor to the variety and depth you will find in the tour.
This month's panel of presenters will be Ryon Frisch, Randy Bauder, and Lane Garrett, each sharing their experiences with going Green, sustainable and solar.
The Frisch residence is unique and elegant in meeting the needs of a young, large Mesa family with a limited resources. Innovative design to accommodate numerous children in an environmentally sensitive and responsive manner; incorporation of Green products for environmental health; resource eficient equipment and fixtures provide for reponsible living in a desert characterized by limited resources.
The Bauder residence, a newly remodeled 30 year old Valley building, that is a product of change in stages, is an example of that old saying - achieving a silk purse out of a sow's ear - Green materials and strategies; and incorporation of solar equipment for power production as well as water heating.
The Garrett residence - a 30+ old passive and active solar residence that shows that good ideas, design and applications withstand the test of time. Orientation, materials, below grade living zones, thermal decompression, and numerous passive strategies combined with solar equipment for generating electricity, heating water, driving the pool pump and outdoor light, and even solar cooking, have led this building to continue comfortably thru Valley summers and winters, year after year for at least 3 decades.
A new, large family solar and Green residence; a sustainability and solar remodel of an older existing valley building; and an early and continuing to be viable passive/active solar residence the trio representing the much greater variety of information and excitment you will see during the Tour.
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This free interactive series is put on by the the Arizona Solar Center (an Arizona non-profit collaborative of State, education, industry, design, and business representatives) and the Arizona Solar Energy Association (State Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society), under the auspices of the City of Scottsdale Green Building program.
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