City of Lafayette and Sustainable Lafayette
(Winners were selected by the City’s Environmental Task Force. Awards were announced at Earth Day on April 25th and presented at the City Council meeting on April 26th, 2010. This page was prepared by the City of Lafayette)
RESIDENT
Louise Clark
For being a model to your neighbors and the community in retrofitting your 52-year old home to become energy efficient and not burn any fossil fuel
Jim
Peacock
For setting a example for the community and remodeling a
1929 downtown cottage with recycled materials, including
framing materials, doors, columns, flooring, bricks,
lighting fixtures, windows, hardware, cabinets, and redwood
siding
BUSINESS
Diablo
Foods
For being a model of environmental sustainability by
offering local products, developing a mini Famers Market
with local produce, composting organic waste, offering
green household products, and supporting sustainable
practices by customers
Yankee
Pier
For
being a model of environmental sustainability, as evidenced
by your motto Committed to Sustainability, in choosing to
serve only ocean-fresh, local seafood, in accordance with
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program and in
promoting practices that are healthy for the oceans
ABsolute
Center
For
being a model of environmental sustainability as a
certified Contra Costa Green Business and by your
commitment to conserve resources and protect the
environment
COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION
Local
Food Group
For
bringing together a group of dedicated and determined
volunteers to make local foods more available in the
community and for starting the Lafayette Farmers Market in
the downtown
Lafayette
Chamber of Commerce
For
creating its Green Committee to help local businesses learn
about and adopt green practices, starting the Green
Business Recognition Program, making the Chamber Office
greener, and transforming the Lafayette Art & Wine
Festival into the most successful large event recycling
program in Contra Costa County
SCHOOL
Lafayette
School District
For
installing solar panels in four of its five schools to save
approximately 20 percent of the District’s annual projected
electrical energy costs
Lisa
Evaristo of Burton Valley School
For
transforming the school’s hot lunch program into an
ecologically responsible and nutritious program by using
recyclable baskets, sorting of lunch waste by students, and
recycling materials, and reducing daily lunch waste from 10
cans to one can
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GREEN
BUILDING
Lennox
House (John & Gwenn Lennox, Faulkner Architects, Tom
Alderson, and Brent Buckham)
For its
use of passive and active solar, reclaimed rainwater, gray
water, drought-tolerant landscaping,
environmentally-friendly materials, radiant heating,
daylighting design, and a solar chimney