Living Green Sponsors & Resources
Sponsors of the Living Green Exhibit at the Virginia Living Museum
The $315,000 project was partially funded by a $150,000 matching grant from the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network. The garden portion of the project was also being supported through a donation from the local Huntington Garden Club.
Additional donations provided by:
- Warwick Plumbing and Heating
- Calvin S. Collins Contractor (Home Builder)
(757) 930-2927 - Watershed Architects (Green Architectural Design)
- Concreate (Concrete Floor Finishes)
- Custom Gardens
- Eagle Window and Door
- Moonlight by Design (Outdoor Lighting)
(757) 224-3862 - Shockwaves (Site and Tree Work)
(757) 240-5206 - Siteworks (Green Landscape Design)
- York Lighting Residential Lighting)
- Hampton Roads Crane and Rigging
- Solar Services
Resources
Check out the below websites for information about how you can build, remodel and/or garden green:
Building Exterior
Walls, Insulation and Windows
- US Dept of Energy
- ICF Walls
- Icynene ® Spray in Insulation
- SIP Panels
- AirKrete® Insulation
- Efficient Windows Collaborative
- Aquatherm Pipe
Energy and Lighting
- Solar Hot Water Heaters
- Solar Electricity
- Solar Panels
- Geothermal or Ground Source Heat Pumps
- Geothermal Heat Pumps and How do they Work?
- Daylighting-tubular Skylights
- Velux Tubes
- Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
- VA Gov. Assessing Your Home’s Energy Fitness
- Lighting Fixtures Approved by the International Dark Sky Association
- Understand Solar
Lumber
Gardening/Backyard Habitats
- National Wildlife Federation – Creating a Backyard Habitat
- U.S Fish and Wildlife “Bayscaping”
- Plants to Avoid in the Southeast U.S. – (N.C. Botanical Garden site)
Native Plants for Landscaping
- Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration, and Landscaping
- Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration & Landscaping (PDF)
Invasive Plant Species to Avoid
Rain Barrels and other ways to Soak up the Rain
Composting
Pervious Paving
Light Pollution
- What is light pollution?
- The Fading Milky Way
- NASA Composite Satellite Photo of the World at Night Showing Light Pollution
Green Roofs
District of Columbia links to online tours for a collection of “showcase” green roofs demonstrating the best the city has to offer. Over the last six years, Washington D.C. has been quietly developing one of the country’s best green roof programs. An initial demonstration program was followed by a green roof subsidy in 2007, and the result has been an explosion of space-effective, stormwater-slurping green roofs. D.C. has now compiled an inventory of approximately 75 green roofs in the District, each over 1,000 square feet, with total area coverage of ~350,000 square feet.