17 November 2008 | Posted inBlog News & Updates, Sustainable Design
Posted by Janet
The Green Dream
The Toronto office has been involved in several Habitat For Humanity projects over the years. While this one differs in scale and materials – its purpose is the same. The “Green Dream” house, built entirely from edible materials, will be used to help promote The 2008 Habitat Gingerbread Build fundraiser December 6 & 7. The creative Toronto team consisted of Sarah Ferguson, Reem Abood, Vivian Gabrail, Jenny Hyatt, Genny Rose,with help from Tania Ursomarzo & Carmen Cheung. The theme was of course sustainability, with features including chocolate solar panels, licorice rainwater barrels, a jelly bean green roof and gumdrop wind turbines. The gingerbread houses will be auctioned off to offer ”a ‘hand up’ to children in need of a simple, decent, affordable home. Hundreds of families sign up to build and decorate one, two or several gingerbread houses at this event.”
I think they get extra points for building the world’s first Leed Platinum Gingerbread house!
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Love the gumdrop wind turbines and chocolate solar panels. The green roof is sweet, too. I hadn’t realized how environmentally inconsiderate I was when building gingerbread houses as a kid. I wonder if I can buy sugar-offsets to repent for my sins??
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