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The Inventors THE ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND ARTISTS CREATING THE NEXT GREEN THING the Day of the Dead. Inspired by the holiday, he conceived of the Sweet Disposable series of products. These little works are temporary by definition—a golf tee, a skeet shooting target—but suggest that a world gone mad on disposable products could make them of a material like sugar, which just washes away. Green Building Council first met in San Francisco in 1999.) Today, the USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, program, sets the ‘gold’ standard for green building. MICHELLE KAUFMANN Are any of you New Yorkers dreaming of a weekend place? This Iowaborn, Oakland-based architect has created a series of modular houses that combine the best of prefab construction and green living—two of the most exciting movements in contemporary design. JULIE BARGMANN Outgoing and offbeat, Bargmann sees beauty in landscapes that bear the toxic scars of industry. And with the help of her landscape architecture firm D.I.R.T. Studio and students at the University of Virginia, Bargmann is using phytoremediative plants and other natural techniques to rid these places of contamination and restore them for popular use. RICHARD LIDDLE Uncooled recycled extrude. It doesn’t sound particularly sexy, but it could be the future of your furniture. From a post in North East England, Liddle has developed this method for melting down used HDPE plastic and transforming it, instantly, into new goods. DAVID GOTTFRIED In the ’80s, this real estate developer was a master of the universe, pursuing success with little regard for his planetary impact. But by 1991 his focus shifted exclusively to sustainable design projects and, two years later, he had founded the U.S. Green Building Council as its first president. (His World EDWARD MAZRIA BIL BECKER Windmills aren’t just for Midwestern plains or gusty mountaintops. After decades of research, Becker’s petite Aerotecture wind turbines are beginning to dot the tops of city rooftops and generate clean electricity. FORWARD THINKER EDWARD MAZRIA IMAGE ©2007 JAMEY STILLINGS, PAT GRUBER IMAGE IMAGE ©JEFF SCIORTINO PHOTOGRAPHY SHUJI NAKAMURA Compact fluorescents are a great replacement for traditional incandescent bulbs, to be sure, but prepare yourself for light emitting diodes. LEDs are the next wave of BUILDING CARBON-NEUTRAL COULD BECOME MATTER OF FACT BY 2030 Thanks to his group Architecture 2030, the worldwide design and building community is adopting The 2030 Challenge, which aspires to make all new buildings carbon-neutral by 2030. This isn’t a far-off hope, either. The 2030 mandate calls for new buildings and major renovations to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels by 60 percent by 2010. When he's not advocating for greener buildings, Mazria leads by his example. Projects undertaken by his eponymous design firm include an elementary school that uses half the energy of standard plus the expansion of the historic estate of Georgia O'Keefe. GEORGE BEYLERIAN Industrial designers and engineers know him as the founder of Material Connexion, the highly regarded subscription library for new and innovative materials. Now, collaborating with McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry and the Environment Protection Encouragement Agency, he is highlighting cradle-to-cradle-certified materials and helping companies develop new materials that meet those strict criteria. PAT GRUBER CORN CAPER REAPING PLASTICS— NOT DRILLING FOR THEM The chemist has left an enduring legacy at the Cargill company NatureWorks. Well, perhaps "enduring" isn't the most appropriate term: Gruber's polymer, which is sold under the names NatureWorks and Ingeo, is completely fabricated from corn rather than petroleum. This new material replaces innumerable kinds of petroleum-based plastics, from disposable tableware to curtains, and can even go the way of the compost bin. EMILIANO GODOY While we love recyclable materials, have you ever considered the bins, trucks, and sorting plants that make recycling possible? What if, instead, something just safely disappeared once it wore out its welcome? Contemplating the bigger networks involved in recycling, Godoy, who grew up in Mexico City, remembered the sugar skulls that populate [ O 2 G R E E N M A G A Z I N E . C O M ] 43 http://O2GREENMAGAZINE.COM

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