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April 2008 was ARCHITECTURE MONTH.
This is planned to be an annual event month, so watch for next year's program. This time, Furman University's Dr. David Shi presented Greening The Ivory Tower: Furman's Committment to Sustainability. Visitors participated in a sustainable home tour by builder John Carrol, and of special interest, Liberty Bridge architect Miguel Rosales gave a talk about the design that transformed Falls Park on the Reedy River. A wide range of topics and groups were offered, like Girlscouts in Architecture, Sketch Tour of Heritage Green , More Green for Less Green: Building an Earthcraft House on a Budget by Mark Godfrey AIA LEED Architect, of Pazdan-Smith Group Architects, sponsored by the US Green Building Council SC Chapter. A landscape design lecture, a wetlands tour and pig pickin', windows for dummies (a session that has nothing to do with computers). There were other seminars for architecture professionals. With a few exceptions, all events were free and open to the public. CONTACT: For more info about next year's events and volunteer opportunities, please contact Cary Perkins at (864) 386-2217 or cary@arch08.org The website is at www.arch08.org

Upstate House & Woodland Garden is a joint venture of the Home Builders Association of Greenville, South Carolina and Upstate Forever, a not-for-profit “promoting sensible growth and protection of special places” in the Upstate region of South Carolina. It is both a demonstration project -- promoting more environmentally friendly living -- and a fundraising project to promote the EarthCraft House green building standard in the upstate. Learn more about this program called Upstate House, located in Greenville's Pettigru Historic District.

Going GREEN in Greenville

A recent Greenville Journal cover story "Green is Gold" (vol.9, No. 43) featured going "green" in the Greenville area. Mention was made of Cliffs Cottage, the LEED certified Southern Living Showcase house being built at Furman University. However, there was no info offered to find out more about the project, so here's a link to Furman University's press release on the showcase home. "Southern Living magazine will feature the Showcase Home and gardens in several issues of its magazine, which reaches nearly 16 million readers each month."

National home and garden magazines have blogs on design, architecture, gardens, food and more. One such example is Cottage Living Magazine's blog community -- Cottage Living is a favorite magazine here, as well as Western Interiors & Design. There are so many and yet, so few good ones.

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Find very cool things in Greenville if you're willing to go off the beaten path. See gift items for popular occasions, discover great services or delve into collecting art and fine craft.

Native Plant Society's plant sales. Keep up with the group's events, see their website here.

G.R.O.W. Gardening & Recycling Organics Wisely DHEC (South Carolina Dept. of Health & Environmental Control scdhec.gov/recycle

Botanical Gardens A special treat is just outside Greenville, in Clemson, SC. Visit the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University. Features site-specific sculpture made from natural materials such as trees, soil, plants, rocks, etc. The sculptural works are designed to fade away into the environment over time, so see them while they last (expected to last 10 to 30 years or more). www.clemson.edu/scbg

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