Green By Design Workshop at Lady BJ Wildflower Center
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and Austin Energy are hosting a 1-day Green by Design Workshop on November 4, 2006 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It's a short program, aimed at current or future homeowners, that provides information about how to make your home as green as possible. Space is limited - sign up now!
Austin Energy and the Wildflower Center both have a variety of programs aimed at helping local residents get a little greener. Plus, the City has taken on an ambitious program to make all new single-family homes built in the City’s building code jurisdiction “Zero-Energy Capable Homes” by the year 2015.
Austin was recently ranked the fourteenth greenest city in the country by SustainLane magazine. Only fourteenth? The main problem is the local dependence on cars for transportation - public transit ridership fell from about 5% in 2000 to about 2% in 2004 and less than 3% of Austinites walk or bike to work (the vast majority of us drive to work by ourselves - about 79% in 2004).
*Image (c) Matt Wright on flickr*
