LCLT in the News

• 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 Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program (DOE/WAP). The award is for Common Ground, and due in part to LCLT’s publication of the manual Land, Water, Energy, Resource Use: A System’s Approach. The award included a plaque; a short video of the project; an energy audit kit donated by Fluke including an infrared thermometer, laser distance meter and a dozen other devices; a trip to Austin Texas to attend the ACI National Home Performance Conference; high accuracy software for energy audits; and other training scholarships and certificates. The conference attendees spent one morning downtown at the Hall of States with staff of the Obama administration, focusing on national energy policy, jobs, the importance of energy conservation and the role it plays in our energy independence as a nation.
• 7/24/09 Seattle Daily Journal article
• 7/ 21/08 Eco-home Magazine, “Case Study: Lopez Island”
• Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadership in the Context of Emerging Worlds- This paper reflects on the results of a global interview project with 25 thinkers on knowledge and leadership.
• 9/5/2008 Wall Street Journal, “Have Knife, Will Travel”- An article about the Mobile Processing Unit on Lopez Island
• “Low-Cost Houses on a High-Price Island,” New York Times (May 2, 1993)

LCLT has also been featured in Jim Tolpin’s The New Cottage Home (1998), Washington: Renewing the Countryside (2005), and Smart by Nature by the Center for Ecoliteracy (2009).