Publications

A selected list of publications about LCLT or that include information about LCLT:

• Slow Building of Community on Lopez Island – Shelterforce
• “Common Ground: An Uncommon Energy-Efficient Community” Home Power Magazine
• https://living-future.org/lbc/case-studies/lopez-community-land-trust-common-ground/ Living Building Certification
• Thriving Communities Shelter Feature of LCLT: https://vimeo.com/122560078
• Capital Institutes Field Guide on LCLT: http://fieldguide.capitalinstitute.org/lopez-land-trust.html
• Bounty: Lopez Island Farmers, Food, and Community, co-published by LCLT and the Lopez Locavores, 2016
• “Pushing Zero” by Jenny Sullivan in the June 2010 issue of Builder magazine: http://www.builderonline.com/design/common-ground_o.
• Website feature: Case Study, Lopez Common Ground Cooperative, Lopez Community Land Trust, 2010 Awards of Excellence, Home Depot Foundation.
• Land, Water, Energy, Resource Use— A Systems Approach: Understanding Our Fourth Affordable Housing Development, LCLT, 2009. Digital copies available upon request.
• 7/24/09 Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce article, “Lopez Island Housing Project built for ‘net zero’ energy use,” by Katie Zemtseff July 24, 2009.
• Smart by Nature, “Reconnect, Revitalize, Sustain, “ Michael K. Stone, Center for Ecoliteracy, 2009
• 7/ 21/08 Eco-home Magazine, “Case Study: Lopez Island”
• 9/5/2008 Wall Street Journal, “Have Knife, Will Travel”– An article about the Mobile Processing Unit on Lopez Island
• Washington: Renewing the Countryside, “Lopez Community Land Trust’s Mobile Meat Processing Unit,” John Harrington, Ed., 2005
• Jim Tolpin’s The New Cottage Home, , “The Cottage as Community,” 1998
• “Low-Cost Houses on a High-Price Island,” New York Times, May 2, 1993

Awards:

• National Association of Home Builders Winner: Multifamily Project, Salish Way High Performance Affordable Housing: Premier Building Systems LLC, 2022
• 5-Star Rating Built Green Certificate of Merit, Salish Way, 2022
• Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA) Building Excellence Award, Affordable Housing Winner 2022
• U.S. Department of 2021 Housing Innovation Award winner in the Affordable category
• International Living Future Institute – Living Building Challenge 3.0 Net Zero Energy certification, 2016
• 25 Enterprises that build Resilience, Transition U.S., “A Reconomy Project” by Marissa Mommzerts, 2016. http://www.transitionus.org/event/reconomy-project-teleseminar-enterprises-build-resilience
• Home Depot Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Built Responsibly 2010.
• 2010 Gold Nugget Grand Award for Green Sustainable Community of the Year
• Treehugger.com Design and Architecture Best of Green Award 2010, http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/green-net-zero-energy-housing-by-mithun-shows-how-its-done.html
• Honorable mention for 2010 AIA Seattle What Makes it Green?
• National Association for State Community Services Programs Weatherization Award 2010
• Urban Land Institute finalist for Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Awards 2010
• 2004 Opportunity Council Community Partner Award
• 2003 Sustainable Northwest Founders of a New Northwest Award
• 1996 NW Cooperative Federation–Cooperative Development Award
• 1995 Washington State Housing Finance Commission Friend of Housing Award to Sandy Bishop
• 1994 Fannie Mae Foundation Maxwell Awards of Excellence Honorable Mention for Morgantown