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The Green-It-Yourself (G-I-Y) Guidebook Series, and our free on-line videos provide a concrete body of knowledge to help people live more sustainably. The G-I-Y Workbook series illustrates cost-effective "green" strategies that the average consumer can immediately integrate into their everyday life. The workbooks provide a range of optional solutions, allowing consumers to integrate green practices into their lives within their budget.

* G-I-Y Workbook Series is ideal for Homeowners, Designers, Do-It-Yourself'ers
* G-I-Y-Supplies via internet, local hardware stores 
                    

LORI GIBBS

Lori combines the sensibilities of architecture and writing to bring inventive ideas into functioning fruition. Green-It-Yourself is Lori's latest eco-friendly design/build workshop project. Previous workshops she has conducted designed and built rain-water collection, reuse and toilet flushing systems at Habana Outpost in Brooklyn.
Other projects she has worked on include: the Greening and Growing NYC exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (about PlaNYC) and Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Design Competition and Exhibition (sponsored by the Design Trust for Public Space).
Drawings, buildings and words engage people, and by grafting these mediums together Lori has also written and researched for architectural publications including, Log (published by the Anyone Corp.) and Thinking Outside of the Structure:Critical Thinking for Designers and Architects (Fairchild Books, Conde Nast Publications). 

email:
lori.m.gibbs@gmail.com
   
B.Arch with honors, Pratt Institute School of Architecture; LEED AP; MA Histories & Theories, Architectural Association, London

ATOM CIANFARANI

Atom is a recycled-commodities designer, sculptor, and green roof specialist.  Everything Atom creates has an integral commitment to preservation.  Working with numerous greenroof  and living wall systems, Atom has used her knowledge and experience to design and install greenroofs from Vancouver, Canada to New York City.
She is on the Board of Directors of New York's Lower East Side Ecology Center, designed Brooklyn's famous Eco-Eatery Habana Outpost, built the world's first Light Pipe Chandelier, acted as guest lecturer and critic at the country's first accredited sustainable fashion course, and is a commissioned sculptor who creates animal habitats and examines "urban bioremediation."

email:
atomseco@gmail.com

web:
www.atomseco.com


Certificate, Green Roofs at the Centre for the Advancement of Green Roof Technology, Ca, 2007
BA Philosophy, Carelton University, Ca, 1994

SAMPLE G-I-Y GREENROOF PROJECTS:

Brownstown on ECO BROOKLYN, BROOKLYN NY

Installed July 2009 


This was our first Green-It-Yourself installation. Our system for homeowners installed easily in 2 days with about 4 volunteers.


EPDM Root Gaurd, G-I-Y-Roof Protection Mat, G-I-Y-Roof Drain and Filter cloth, 3" GaiaSoil
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