An additional 24 Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis houses have been awarded LEED Platinum Certification – bringing the total since 2008 to 51 houses. Another 17 Habitat homes are complete and pending certification.
Habitat proposed and is now in the running for a $250,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant to create a ‘Sustainable Learning Center.’ The ‘Learning Center’ would give St. Louisans an opportunity to learn about and participate in sustainable home construction.
The proposed ‘Sustainable Learning Center’ house would be constructed in the same manner as other Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis homes; built and certified under the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program. Each Build Day would be used as an educational opportunity to provide detailed information about the sustainable elements inHabitat houses, sustainable building principals and sustainable building practices.
The goal is to provide a living, working classroom for participants so they too can have the opportunity to physically construct and practice sustainable construction techniques while gaining the real world training of working on a LEED certified project.
Pepsi Refresh Grants are awarded based on a public vote this November. Voting can be done every day. There are three ways to vote for the Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis ‘Sustainable Learning Center’: 1-Text (text the number “103996” to Pepsi (73774) from a mobile phone) 2- Facebook (sign into a Facebook account and install the Pepsi Refresh Voting App.; Go to the application and search for “Habitat St.Louis”; Vote) 3- Pepsi Refresh website, www.refresheverything.com (click “Join Refresh Everything” in the bottom left corner; fill out the form; go to www.refresheverything.com/habitatstl; select Vote for this Idea). Please note, Pepsiwill not collect or use e-mails or phone numbers to reach voters.
More information and step-by-step instructions for voting can be found at:
http://www.habitatstl.org/supportus/pepsirefreshproject.
Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. One of the leading housing developers in the St. Louis metropolitan area, Habitat has built 300homes in St. Louis.
Six new houses will be built in the JeffVanderLou Neighborhood beginning the week of Thanksgiving. Habitat has a goal to build 50 houses a year by
2015. Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis regularly ranks among the top Habitat for Humanity 1500+ affiliates in the country.
Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis is located at 3763 Forest Park Avenue. The phone number is 314-371-0400. Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis can be found on-line at www.habitatstl.org and on twitter: @habitatstl.