The Grand Opening of the Seed Library coincided with the 2012 Food Charrette on February 25, 2012. This event focused on increasing availability of local food on Lopez Island. Our new seed librarian Ken Akopiantz spoke of the importance of saving and expanding our supply of local seeds that are appropriate to the island.
Tour LCLT December 2011
The 2011 Harvest Dinner was Saturday, October 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Center with guest speaker Percy Schmeiser. Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada, whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO Round-Up Ready Canola.
LCLT won the Home Depot Foundation national Award of Excellence for Affordable Housing Built Responsibly for its latest project Common Ground.
LCLT’s Common Ground neighborhood received the 2010 Annual Golden Nuggets Grand Award for “Green Sustainable Community of the Year.
LCLT’s Common Ground neighborhood is featured in the June 2010 issue of Builder magazine.
On February 24, 2010, the Lopez Community Land Trust was awarded first prize in the “new construction” category by the National Association of State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) in Washington, DC. NASCSP members are state administrators of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and the U.S. Department of [...]
On June 7th, LCLT’s Common Ground neighborhood received an award at AIA Seattle’s “What Makes It Green?” Awards program.
