Green Libraries
Below is a collection of articles and resources showing how libraries around the nation are going green. DC's new neighborhood libraries are planned to all be L.E.E.D. certified Silver, not the higher Gold or Platinum awards. Promises of a vegetative green roof were made for the new Anacostia, Tenleytown, Benning, and Shaw libraries. Unfortunately more recently, DC Public Libraries has determined that they will not include a vegetative green roof for the Shaw library without any substantial reason as to why. The situation in the Ward 2 Shaw community is contrary to promises made at the start of the library transformation process and does not seem to fit the trend of civic buildings around the nation aiming to go green.
Green Resource Links
Green Articles
- South L.A. debuts its first 'green' building
August 19, 2008, Los Angeles Times -- With solar panels, more trees and recycled building materials, the renovated Exposition Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library received a gold rating from environmental group.
- Downtown library goes green with new ecoroof
August 4, 2008, Daily Journal of Commerce -- The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Portland recently gave two grants to Multnomah County in order to fund a $180,000 ecoroof on its central library building in downtown Portland.
- East Columbia Library Turns to a Higher Power: The Sun
July 10, 2008, Washington Post -- Howard County leadership unveiled an array of 24 solar panels to offset energy costs of their library.
- Editorial: Green Libraries Are Local
June 15, 2008, Library Journal -- You've got to love San Francisco. Great views, great people, great food, great libraries.
- Editorial: Seeing Green
January 15, 2008, Library Journal -- Libraries are perfectly suited to be incubators for energy conservation
- Governors, mayor stress sustainable efforts
September 12, 2008, Washington Business Journal -- DC's Mayor talked about the District’s plan to create a renewable energy utility and the new energy-efficient buildings being built in the city.
- Duncan Library in Alexandria Virginia
December 31, 1969, -- Duncan is the first City of Alexandria building with an ecologically-friendly rooftop, often referred to as a Green Roof.
- District Government Offers Funding for Solar, Wind Energy Projects
February 25, 2009, DC Department of Energy -- District residents, businesses, nonprofits and private schools may now apply for up to $33,000 in assistance to install renewable energy systems on their buildings.
- Baltimore County Gets First New Library Branch In 21 Years
March 23, 2009, WBAL Radio -- The library also includes a working fireplace in the adult reading room, a plasma TV in an area specially designed for teens, and the first-ever drive-up window where people can return items, or check out new ones that they've reserved on-line.
- New $7M Perry Hall Library Opens
March 23, 2009, WJZ-TV Baltimore -- Conservative yet creative financing has brought a new library to Perry Hall.
- Public Libraries around Nation Facing Asbestos Remediation
July 29, 2009, Mesothelioma Web -- It is as costly and time-consuming to demolish a building with asbestos and remove the debris to an approved landfill as it is to perform asbestos remediation and return the structure to use.
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