Miami Herald feature of Sebastian Eilert

Great picture and some interesting thoughts about how guests can stay over if you have limited space. Read the article at Herald Online....

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http://www.miamiherald.com/781/story/1397302-p2.html

How to green your South Florida home – Part II

How to green your South Florida home – Part II

USGBC South Florida - New membership directory for sustainable firms

another great advancement by the US Green Building Council, South Florida Chapter. The addition of a membership directory. Find Sebastian Eilert right here:

http://usgbcsf.org/Content/Members/MemberPublicProfile.aspx?pageId=386430&memberId=1700484

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In the chapters words:

On behalf of our organization's Board of Directors, I am pleased to present a new benefit to our valued members. Effective immediately, the Chapter's popular website (www.usgbcsf.org) has added to its menu an online Membership Directory.

Check it out! You can use the Simple Search (on which the page opens) or utilize the Advanced Search to explore the list by any number of logical categories (e.g., company, LEED AP, industry sector, city, Branch) or any combination thereof.

This new benefit -- highly requested during our recent membership survey -- will allow individuals looking for green-building and sustainability professionals and companies to find you. As a benefit of membership, only USGBC South Florida members are listed.

The only thing that most members now need to do is take a few minutes to login and create your profile. After doing so, you will be able to register for events and special programs, renew online, and make donations to our nonprofit organization. You can update and maintain your email and personal profile; note your Branch affiliation(s); include your company's website, logo and a short summary about your company or yourself; list your professional accreditation ... and more. In short, we've designed this to be a terrific marketing tool for you.

A "current" membership and membership record will also allow you to receive the Chapter's discounted rates in the future when you register for a program or event, as well as free admission to our monthly Branch meetings. Obviously, too, an updated membership record will allow you to continue to receive communications from the Chapter. (Has your membership lapsed? To renew click here.)

The volunteer leadership of the USGBC South Florida Chapter hopes that you enjoy this new membership benefit. Please update your profile and please login to the website whenever you are going to register for Chapter events and Branch meetings. If you are having trouble logging in, click here and follow the instructions.

Thanks for your ongoing support of our nonprofit organization. If we can ever be of any assistance to you or your company or firm, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Take care ...

Miami Marine Stadium Update - A great year for the Stadium!

As the year comes to an end, here is the latest from the Friends of Marine Stadium: Village Green Man Friends of Marine Stadium Logo Contest Logo Contest We had 34 entries in our contest to design a logo for Friends of Marine Stadium. Because of the number of intriguing entries, this has been a very difficult decision for our panel of judges! After much deliberation, the winner is Alejandra Marquez. Alejandra's winning entry can be seen by clicking here . We are delighted with it. And we thank all the graphic artists for participating in our contest and being involved in the Marine Stadium effort. We will leave up all of the entries on our website. More Press There is a terrific article on the Marine Stadium in the December issue of Metropolis Magazine. Click here to see it. After you click, you can go to the previous page to see another image of the Marine Stadium. In fact, check out the whole magazine. Press continues to be an important focus for us and our dynamic duo of Penny Lambeth and Violette Sproul are working on more media and print pieces. What You Can Do It is the end of the year, which means time to make your tax deductible contributions. If you believe in the restoration of Marine Stadium, please consider us! Our all volunteer organization has made great progress, but relies on your support. You can join Friends of Marine Stadium for only $60, tax deductible-and you'll become a member of Dade Heritage Trust (DHT), Miami Dade County's foremost preservation organization. When you join, you will receive a copy of Preservation Today, DHT's annual magazine format publication which features Miami Marine Stadium. Click here to print out a copy of the application. And if you have already joined for the year, please consider making an extra contribution to our cause, which is tax deductible. Checks should be made out to Dade Heritage Trust and sent to DHT at 190 SE 12th Terrace, Miami, FL 33131 with a notation "for Friends of Marine Stadium". Holiday Party Finally, click here to see an invite for Dade Heritage Trust's Holiday Party, which is Dec. 17. The party is at a beautiful home in Coral Gables and features food and beverage. Cost is only $45; $40 for members of Friends of Marine Stadium and Dade Heritage Trust, RSVP by December 10. This is a lovely, classy evening and a wonderful way to support our parent organization, Dade Heritage Trust-and a great way to connect up with other Marine Stadium supporters!

Friends of Marine Stadium won the 2009 Historic Preservation Award from the Miami Chapter of the American Association of Architects (AIA). The award was presented at the AIA Annual Dinner in November. Miami AIA was our first sponsor-and is one of the many organizations supporting restoration of the Marine Stadium. Congratulations to all of us! Holiday Cheers Jorge Hernandez Becky Roper Matkov Don Worth Friends of Marine Stadium www.marinestadium.org

HOK Green AHA Moment at Greenbuild 2009

One of the exhibitors at this years Greenbuild tried a little different approach and I believe created something very interesting and valuable in the process. HOK decided to listen to the audience instead of marketing their services directly.
The "Green AHA Moment" filmed and recorded is shared on YouTube and is a great collection of how individuals across the industry have come to green building.

Watch, vote and share:

General summary or "Best of..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgjxkkaokv4

Yours truly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyFwrMiwhI

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Green Happy Hour in Miami! Thursday November 19, 2009. 6;30

Join the AIA Miami and Architecture for Humanity – Miami tomorrow, Thursday at Green Street Café for the Architecture month Green Happy / Drinking for Humanity.
Meet like minded individuals and learn more about sustainable and socially conscious design in South Florida. Also enjoy some free appetizers… See you there!

www.GreenStreetCafe.net

3468 main highway
coconut grove, FL 33133
(305) 444-0244

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SustainLane local cliamte action challange - click and vote...

SustainLane is heading up the Local Action Challenge in partnership with Hopenhagen, an international movement to drive action on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December.

Cities across the country – like Miami,FL – have sent in their top-ten lists of actions they’d like residents to take in order to combat climate change and otherwise care for the planet right in their own communities.

Residents who take their cities’ challenge, complete tasks on the list and upload photos of themselves doing so. They are then entered into weekly drawings to win prizes donated by green business sponsors.

Here’s how to play:

1. Go to www.SustainLane.com/hopenhagen
2. Choose your city.
3. Choose a challenge.
4. Take a photo of yourself in action.
5. Upload it.
6. Win a prize.
7. Repeat.

Miller Coors Lideres - young leaders across America.

My wife, Anjenys Gonzalez-Eilert, is one of 12 Liderers in the US currently looking to be awarded. If she wins, a wonderful Hispanic organization, Cuban American National Council will receive a contribution. Please help this happen, take a moment to vote at http://www.millercoorslideres.com

Spread the word, forward this to friends.

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Dade Heritage Trust fundrasier at Crazy Pianos - Coconut Grove.

Join Dade Heritage Trust (DHT) for a fun fundrasier to benefit the Miami Marine Stadium efforts to save this magnificent structure.

The event will be at Crazy Pianos and feature Jimmy Buffet songs. You also get a drink with your doantion.

This will be a fun night to benefit a great cause.

November 10, 2009. 6:30 to 9:30.

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AIA Miami green building award for Sebastian Eilert

It seems that yours truely was awarded the Sustainable Design Architect Award for 2009 from the American Institute of Architects, Miami Chapter.

Celebrations are November 21, 2009. I will follow up with an actual post of the award.

Thank you for recognizing my efforts to advance the sustianable building movement and community in Miami and South Florida.

Village Green Man

Modernism The Recent Past in Florida

Modernism The Recent Past in Florida

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Metro Crawl this Friday - Miami Energing Green Builders.

This friday start the Halloween weekend of right by joining the Emerging Green Builders of the USGBC South Florida for a fun twist on the pub crawl...a metro crawl. The event will start and end in South Miami with a hop on the metro to Tobacco Road. Sure to be a fun and green time!

October 30, 2009.

see flyer for more information

http://www.usgbcsf.org/events?eventId=96247&EventViewMode=2&CalendarViewType=0&SelectedDate=10/23/2009

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Plastic...and the effects. Midway Atoll

It is very frustrating and a urgent reminder to change our wasteful ways when looking at images like the dead albatrosses at Midway Atoll...

http://chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

Think about these, next time you throw away plastic or purchase something in plastic! Help make a difference to prevent more atrocities like this to occur and continue.

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Virginia Key News - Miami

THank you Blanca for sharing this.

Tomorrow planting day...volunteer and help. See below for other updates realting to Virgina Key.

Village Green Man


VIRGINIA KEY DUNE PLANTING Oct. 24 - International Day of Climate Action Urban Paradise Guild invites volunteers to help plant the new dunes on Virginia Key. http://www.urban-paradise.org/node/130 as part of the International Day of Climate Action http://www.350.org/node/7972

GHOST OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT influenced Virginia Key Master Plan delay
The Miami City Commission voted 4-0 to defer Virginia Key Master Plan until May, 2010. This gives more time to public input and the opportunity to develop a plan that preserves the ecology, cultural and historic assets and beauty of the island.
Miami Commissioner Tomas Regalado invoked the memory of conservation president Teddy Roosevelt to make his decision."What would Roosevelt say?" Regalado asked, recounting the conservation president who created five national parks during his tenure.“I think he would say, if you want to make money from Virginia Key you don’t develop the place. There’s nothing else like this.” Regalado said preserving the island’s beauty and nature and restoring the Marine Stadium would bring people from all over the world to Miami, to photograph and visit the unique wilderness island next to a major city."History will judge what we do with this island. We need to get it right," Regalado said. More details on Commission meeting: http://urbanenvironmentleague.blogspot.com/search/label/Virginia%20Key

MIAMI MARINE STADIUM one of 93 sites worldwide named to "Watch List" by World Monuments Fund. http://www.wmf.org/project/commodore-ralph-middleton-munroe-miami-marine-stadium"Why it matters: .... the stadium represents the modernity of a growing city and the international cultural influences that helped shape it. Miami Marine Stadium defined a significant shift in American architectural style from staid civic buildings to exuberant structures reflecting changing tastes and a desire to project the city as a forward-looking place.
Newstory: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091019/ap_on_re_us/us_miami_marine_stadium

JIMBO'S SENDS OUT AN SOS Friends of Jimbo say that the city has reinstituted a $5 entrance fee even for those just going to Jimbos and this could drive Jimbo out of business. Details on this and the day of action Nov. 14:http://www.jimbosplace.com/SaveJimbos.html"Jimbo's is known..as one of the last refuges from the urban sprawl of Miami."http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/jimbos-place-flipper-tv-location/

even more Marine Stadium news...

...this time from the Associated Press...

read the articel here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091019/ap_on_re_us/us_miami_marine_stadium

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Watson Island building proposal - a new Miami

This is truely amazing! giving a entirely new look to the entrance from Miami to Miami Beach. Talk about building, green buidlig, any building...

http://www.miapoliscity.com/proposal.html

Village Green Man

South Miami (SoMi) Mag going green article

South Miami (SoMi) Mag going green article

More great Miami Marine Stadium News!

As a supporter of the effort to save the Miami Marine Stadium, I have posted a number of good news and events in the past. Here is the latest update from the Friends of Marine Stadium

learn more and support the effort at:

Friends of Marine Stadium
http://www.marinestadium.org/


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We've got more good news to report. The Marine Stadium has been named to the 2010 Watch List of the World Monuments Fund.World Monuments Fund (website, wmf.org) is the foremost organization dedicated to the preservation of significant architectural and cultural heritage sites worldwide.
Every two years, they publish a list of significant sites that are considered to be endangered. The Marine Stadium made the list, which includes sites such as New Gourna Village in Luxor, Egypt, the Desert Castles of Ancient Khorzim in Uzbekistan, Taliesen and Taliesen West (Frank Lloyd Wright), the Historic City Center of Buenos Aires, and Antonio's Gaudi's Temple Expiatori De La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. You can go to the World Monuments Fund website to see the complete list.
Inclusion in this list brings the Marine Stadium extraordinary international recognition and it also continues and expands our involvement with the World Monuments Fund. In October, 2008, we received a letter of endorsement from the Fund. And in June, 2009, the World Monuments Fund helped finance and organize an independent engineering study of the Marine Stadium. The field work for the study was completed last week and we hope to have the results in the next several months.

Publicity:
The recent endorsements of the World Monuments Fund and Jimmy Buffett have presented us with a terrific press opportunity. Violette Sproul and Penny Lambeth are now developing a national PR campaign. We are seeing strong interest, and we have already been contacted by some major publications.
Press is significant because it generates valuable contacts, awareness, and credibility.

Virginia Key Master Plan
On October 8, the revised Virginia Key Master Plan was presented to the Miami City Commission. After many speakers and much discussion, the Commission decided to request more work be done on the plan and to have it come back to the Commission in May of 2010.
We are very pleased with the result. The most recent draft was much improved, but we believe more work is needed to be done. It will also provide an opportunity for the new Administration and Commission (Mayoral and Commission elections in early November) to continue moving the process forward.
We must caution, however, that given the current economic environment, there is no direct funding anticipated for any of portion of the plan-including the Marine Stadium.
Delay of the plan provides us with additional time to scope out the feasibility of the Marine Stadium-and to seek additional funding sources.
Finally, we might note that the Administration has decided not to appeal the October, 2008 decision of the City's Historic and Environmental Preservation Board to include both the Marine Stadium basin and an envelope of land around the Stadium in their historic designation. This is also good news-it will both increase the liklihood that we will be able to access historic tax credits and it will help assure that any new construction near the stadium goes through a design review process to assure compatibility.

Save The Date!
Our "parent" organization, Dade Heritage Trust, will be holding a fundraiser at Crazy Pianos in Coconut Grove on November 10, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM. More information will follow in future updates. At the fundraiser, we will be unveiling Preservation Today, a magazine style publication that will feature articles and photographs on the Miami Marine Stadium. We are very excited about this publication-the galley proofs look great. All members of Dade Heritage Trust and Friends of Marine Stadium will receive a copy of it.
If you would like to make sure you get a copy, please consider becoming a member of Friends of Marine Stadium. Attached is our membership form; the $60 contribution is tax deductible, allows you to support our effort to restore the Marine Stadium, and provides you with a membership in Dade. Heritage Trust, Miami Dade County's foremost preservation organization.

Conclusion
The successful restoration and operation of the Marine Stadium is a very large and complex task, and we should not underestimate the challenges.
But we've had a good month. Actually, a very good month. So enjoy the attached image of the Marine Stadium by Coconut Grove activist and photographer Harry Emilio Gottlieb.
Does the Stadium look like the jaws of an alligator or origami? You decide.
And since we're in a really good mood, attached to this email is another image (just click to open the file)-of Jimmy Buffett jumping off the floating stage at the Stadium at the end of a concert.

Architecture for Humanity First annual party!!! - Miami Chapter October 23, 7 pm!

Do not miss the first annual Retrosp[A]ctive party from the Miami Chapter of Architecture for Humanity. Learn what was accomplished in the first year and be part of what is happening for the next!

Ocotber 23, 2009 from 7-10 pm. 7610 NE 4th Court.

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Tetris House – Pinecrest

Eurohabitat contracted Sebastian Eilert Architecture for the new LEED certified home to be erected in Pinecrest. This is likely to be the first certified home in this town. The project will go beyond the LEED standard and will evaluate and provide truly sustainable living concepts with a strong European influence.

The project will have a central pool and very clear lines that will use it as a centrepiece. The project name, “Tetris” is reflected in plan and elevation and will be more than just an architectural exercise. The use of materials, landscape, forms and finishes will reflect innovation, user friendliness and creative design.

Some key features beyond the pool, will be a roof terrace, natural light throughout, a vegetated growing wall and solar panels, among other. Check back for project updates.

http://eurohabitatgreen.com/


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Global Heritage Fund on CNN

A note from teh Global Heritage Fund about upcoming features on CNN. Very worth watcing and supporting!

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In their words:

"Dear Friends and Supporters of Global Heritage Fund,

CNN International’s "World's Untold Stories" will air a 30-minute Special on GHF’s work in conservation, community training and development to help preserve the Mirador Basin in Guatemala.

Despite 6 years of progress and $6 million invested, Mirador still faces accelerating threats, including massive fires and looting, illegal logging, poaching and encroachment.

Below are the air dates for the 30-minute special on the work of GHF at Mirador. Only Available on CNN International.

Tuesday, Oct 13 8:30 AM ET, 12:30pm ET
Saturday, Oct 17 12:30pm ET
Sunday, Oct 18 7am ET, 2:30pm ET, 10pm ET
Tuesday, Oct 27 8:30am ET 1:30pm ET
Saturday, Oct 31 12:30pm ET
Sunday, Nov 1 7am ET, 2:30pm ET, 10pm ET

*note: CNN International is a different channel than CNN. Please check your local channel guide.

Nearby Tikal National Park generates over $240 million a year in revenues, and has been protected thanks to its tourism and national park status. Mirador, like Tikal, is the Number One economic opportunity for Guatemala and its people - if GHF can help save it before it's too late.

"World's Untold Stories" showcases courageous correspondents telling intimate stories of society's most vulnerable people. Renowned archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen and I are interviewed by CNNi on the challenges and solutions for Mirador’s future.

This is GHF's first broadcast Special by CNN, and we hope global media exposure will elevate the global crisis of our endangered and vanishing heritage, and propose new, innovative solutions for heritage conservation and community development.

Please share this with friends and family.

http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalHeritageFund/d345097448/92c4667fea/c8c93b9631


To make a donation, please go to:

http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalHeritageFund/d345097448/92c4667fea/e3542d60f4"

Emerging Green Builders "How to LEED..." Series. Lake Worth

The next installment of the South Florida Emerging Green Builders is set for October 24th at the Eco Center in Lake Worth. Please see flyer below for more information.

Village Green Man

Jimmy Buffet PSA for Marine Stadium

We are all very pleased that we have this great support for our efforts to save the Marine Stadium. See below article from the Miami Herald.

to learn about what you can do, click here: http://www.marinestadium.org/

to check out the YouTube, clikc here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28sHaUUQkQI

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Posted on Wed, Sep. 30, 2009
Jimmy Buffett joins effort to restore Miami Marine Stadium
BY ANDRES VIGLUCCIaviglucci@MiamiHerald.com
An old pirate has joined the fight to rescue a favorite haunt from the pillages of neglect.
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has publicly endorsed preservationists' efforts to restore and reopen the city-owned Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key, the site of many a Parrothead's fondest -- if also foggy -- memories.
In a newly released public-service spot, intercut with video from a 1985 Marine Stadium show that Buffett calls one of his Coral Reefer Band's best, the singer urges fans to support restoration of the graffiti-covered architectural landmark, closed since 1992.
``It's a symbol of everything that's great about Florida -- boats, music, water and great Florida fun,'' a smiling Buffett says as a live version of Margaritaville from the stadium show plays in the background.. ``The stadium deserves a future.''
The concert shots illustrate why the stadium, designed for speedboat racing, proved a memorable concert venue: A packed grandstand sways to the Coral Reefers, who play on a floating stage surrounded by anchored boats and mobs of people splashing in the water and bobbing on kayaks or inflatables.
Stadium supporters say snagging the support of the singer, a God-like figure to the multitudes of worshipers at the church of Buffett, took a year and represents a coup for their campaign.
``He is the single performer who is most identified with that stadium,'' said Don Worth, a founder of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, which has been leading the preservation effort with Dade Heritage Trust. ``I like to think we proved ourselves to him. It's a huge credibility boost for us.''
The campaign won historic designation from the city for the stadium, which sits at the edge of a man-made water basin, and garnered worldwide attention for the grandstand and its dramatic folded-concrete roof, increasingly recognized as an architectural and engineering masterpiece.
But supporters recognize the financially strapped city is unlikely to foot the cost of restoring and operating the stadium by itself.
With the city's agreement, the World Monuments Fund has commissioned a privately-funded, $50,000 engineering study of the stadium to determine its structural condition and the extent of needed repairs, Worth said. The study is scheduled to begin this week.
The group's fondest wish: ``To have Jimmy Buffett at the Marine Stadium again,'' said Dade Heritage Trust Director Becky Roper Matkov.
Is Jimmy game? Sure sounds like it. ``We had a great time at the marine stadium,'' he says in the spot. ``Let's do it again.''

Green Building material selection

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Sebastian Eilert featured in Miami Today

Last weeks "Green in Green" Realtor Panel hosted at Badrutt's Place made it into the latest edition of Miami Today. Sebastian Eilert, your Village Green Man, was quoted and featured along with Tony Cho and Paul D'Arelli.




Interesting article to continue the green building movement momentum in South Florida.





http://www.miamitodaynews.com/index.shtml





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