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bMuse — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:24:24 CST

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11/3/09
Check out this blog: a research-in-progress blog by Rose Daly of Daly Conservation. She is working on energy consumption and collections management issues. Her bibliography is a gift to us all.

11/2/09
The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities had a conference last June on Energy and Historic Sites. Here is a link to my talk...it starts out with a quiz about green knowledge and green practice (8 minutes or so) then moves on to the presentation but since the camera is trained on me, you can't see the PowerPoint for it. I can send the .pdf if you let me know: sarah at bmuse.net Free Lecture Forum - PBS

For those of us who missed the Smithsonian Institution's Climate Change conference a month ago - here are some of the talks. Worth having one with your cup of coffee as you start each day this week.

10/28/09
Denver Zoo: Gasification machine and LEED habitat - inspiration!

10/20/09
I've just posted a terrific link on the collections page - see link at right. Please feel encouraged to add more to keep it company.

One of my George Washington University Green Museum students sent this great link to a NYT article on zero waste - Yellowstone is mentioned. Good to see the National Park Service involved - though not at all surprising.

10/19/09
I just spent a great few days at the National Trust for Historic Preservation conference in Nashville. Here are som good links they shared for helping historic homes and houses be more energy-efficient:

www.PreservationNation.org/weatherization Tips on weatherization for historic houses.

www.PreservationNation.org/issues/sustainability The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s main link for sustainability issues and historic places and spaces

http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/briefs/brief03.htm "Conserving Energy in History Buildings".

9/30/09
The World Comes to the Phipps Conservatory to see its 'greenness'. The State Department's website has great photos and descriptions.

7/10/09

Braden Paynter passed on this link to UK company making Welsh wool insulation for a green building material ...and other green restoration and building materials. Have a look - it will remind you to think outside the box for great solutions.

7/6/09

Two minimalist environmental control projects where the system treatment was specific to the particular issues for the buildings and collections within, at very low operating costs:

Humidity-controlled ventilation:
“Practical Solutions for Carriage Storage: The Stony Brook Shed Project,” paper presented at the 2000 annual meeting of American Institute for Conservation, with Ms. Merri Ferrell, Curator of Carriages, Museums at Stony Brook; and with Jonathan Taggart, Taggart Conservation.

A sealed and filtered unoccupied building:
Environmental Improvements for the Pinkney House at the Kern County Museum,” paper presented at the annual meeting of American Institute for Conservation, June 1991; AASLH Meeting September 1992; MAAM/NEMA Joint Annual Meeting, November 1992.

6/29/09
We get lots of questions about the tension between climate conrol and energy reducation in museums. the short answer is that each situation is different, so you need and engineer and a conservator/curator to help ou make decisions, but here, at least is some reading material to get you going:

From the Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter on Environmental Management you'll find some great articles.

From the onference proceedings of From Gray Areas to Green Areas: Developing Sustainable Practices in Preservation Environments you'll find lots more including Richard L. Kerschner's
Providing Safe and Practical Environments for Cultural Property in Historic Buildings...and Beyond
Check the list of .pdf's on the right-hand side.

And of course the National Park Service and Sharon Park are a GREAT resource: Preservation Brief 24: HVAC and Historic Buildings

6/19/09
Rethinking the Modern Zoo I got this from the FastCompany Daily Newsletter - link to Zoo with art installation's illustrating human impact and interference with the natural world. Very cool. Worth a peek and some thought about how this suggests a change in 'the way we've always done it'.

5/19/09
Hancock Shaker Village - in a tourism webisode promoting their green interpretation: http://www.berkshires.org/BerkshiresGreenandSustainableWebisode/tabid/745/Default.aspx

5/4/09
Great AAM conference. Not too many green sessions, but lots of green museum folks being busy about their good work. The committee of Philly Museums interested in greening museums put out a great wallet-promo on greening your museum. Let's hope the LA folks do as well. The Green PIC - AAM's Professional Interest Committee - picked up some momentum talking to the Accreditation Committee about the future of 'green' as part of accreditation.

5/05/09
Hmm - Green and museums are finding a place on Twitter. Start by following me @greenmuseum and then lookout for the other green museum folks who 'follow'. SB

3/30/09
Proceedings from some of the presentations at From Gray Areas to Green Areas: Sustainability Practices in Preservation Environments in Texas last fall....wish I could have gone!

3/19/2009
Ice Energy storage video - installation of tanks.

1/13/09
Jennifer Madden of Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA, won the ExhibiTricks blog free copy of The Green Museum

1/13/09
The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice described in the National Trust blog on greening your historic site......check it out so you can take good advantage of their links and resources...and then support an historic site near you!

Cheers, SB

1/8/09
I visited President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home, a National Monument, two days ago, and stopped by the Richard H. Smith Visitor Education Center to see its LEED Certified green-ness. It's a gorgeous building, lovingly restored and greened. It has complex-green and simple-green components that are all something any existing building projects can and should consider.

The green is so appropriate that it's almost 'stealth' green: working transoms and windows, CFL's in the ceiling [but they aren't on because the natural light is enough], a cool roof in the spots where it's not yet time to replace the old roof, original fixtures OR additional new ones that look the same but take CFL's!, and a lovely laylight in the center has translucent glazing that lets in and diffuses light from the attic dormer that looks out over the front of the building. Of course, it helps that they started in a gorgeous old buidling, but then isn't that one major reason why historic preservation is so green?

SB

12/29/08
National Trust and Preservation is Green - I missed the chance to go to GreenBuild in Boston, which means I missed this speech by Richard Moe, leader of the National Trust. For those of you who also missed it, here is text for you. It talks about working with USGBC and the Clinton Climate Initiative, AND about creating a GreenLab on the West Coast that tests green and historic preservation issues.

As I went with folks on an energy audit at an historic site two weeks ago, we discussed blown-in insulation. Folks didn't feel they knew enough about the types and their longevity and unintended consequences to allow it in a house with a preservation easement. Does anyone have any comments?

Cheers, SB

12/23/08

12/18/08
I just wanted to let everyone know that Sarah is teaching a three-part webinar for AASLH in January for staff at any level working at history museums or historic sites. It’s an overview of green in US museums, an introduction to green concepts and types of practices, and then an in-depth look at hardware (building and property components, both existing and new, that contribute to sustainability), and software (the programs and practices we use at sites and museums to be more green). There’s even a walk-through of an energy audit at an historic site. The webinar is fast, inexpensive way to learn how to get started with green practices without much, if any, cost. It’s a great way to start the New Year: learning for yourself, your museum, and your visitors. To learn more, go to www.aaslh.org/GoingGreen. Bob Beatty

12/9/08
More on Recycling: This article in the NYT Back at Junk Value, Recyclables are Piling Up, the topic is the crashing sale price of basic recyclables - paper, plastic, aluminum. My opinion - stay the course ...the market for these will right itself, and in the meantime, it still reduces the use of virgin resources and delays the trip to the landfill. The good news - less of the recyclable stuff is being shipped to China - now THAT's progress! SB

11/25/08
About Compostable Plastics: Many of us use 'GreenWare', 'Nature Works' other compostable plastics, but we don't have a way to compost them. There's an asterisk on the 'compostable' description on the GreenWare webpage that refers to 'suitable facilities'. Well, if you want to have or find a suitable facility, you have to know what it is: Everything You Wanted to Learn About Serious Composting. Keep in mind, your local zoo or major botanical garden may have its own suitable facility and you can ask about working with them for the common good.

The NatureWorks company has done some research for you by providing a list of suitable composting facilities for such plastics. around the country. If there isn't a place close-enough, talk with your municipality about spearheading such a program for the benefit of multiple institutions in your area. You never know - it may be on their 'to-do' list, and all they need is a nudge.

Go green and prosper, SB

11/4/08
I get a lot of questions about how to 'convince' someone who doesn't believe in global warming or believe that there's enough of an issue to be a problem...someone who thinks the green wave is a fad. Here are some ideas:

This Chart of C02 increases on flickr should give you some ammunition.

And

The great new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History gives us a great tool for explaining why a cool summer can happen during global warming : Weather vs. Climate

While you're at the AMNH's website, check this out too: Sustainable Practices Facts. They've been thinking green for 10 years already.

Cheers, SB

11/3/08
During a visit to Quebec I met the leader of the green team for Zoo Granby and he and his team have produced a great, great downloadable resource: Green Book/Green Zoo Granby. My copy is in French, (which I cherish) but the website has an English version (which I can actually read well!).

9/26/08 As I listen to Eco Elvis' Compost Hotel (www.ecoelvis.com) I am distracted yet again from traditional work and am addressing green museum issues. Compost Hotel talks about giving 'trash a second life'...and that reminds me of Second Life and its application for museums, and its encouragement of us museum folks to think outside our desks and into the future. Elizabeth and I are working on our next Museum article: Water, Energy and the Future of Collections Care. We're talking to a technology forecaster, authors, museum professionals, engineers, and dreamers to think about museums 100 years from now - that's three generations. It's an excellent mental exercise that adds new meaning to strategic planning. We're also going to participate in the SuperStruct game with AAM. You can join a facebook group for Superstruct if you like. But then of course...we should all be working.......

Cheers, SB

9/23/08 A short - very short - and Loud - very loud...but then heat wheels are loud, and this video is short since you have to get back to work! SB

Product Listings

CarbeeSoyScenic — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:39:12 CDT

Banners
Banner Creations - eco friendly exterior banners

Banner Reclamation - Mega Media Concepts will turn your outdoor banners into bags for revenue.

Environmental Signs
http://www.envirosigns.com/enviropoly/

Lights
Info on CFLs This site shows relative wattage of CFLs to Incandescents. Answers FAQ's and has usage suggestions. Doesn't solve the problem of UV emissions...you can shield exposed bulbs, but how to shield bulbs in cans - build a filter cover...carefully.

Promotional Items
http://www.freshimpressionsonline.com/

Graphic Substrates
Coloredge Visual has several products made from 100% recycled materials. Even clear sheets made from recycled soda bottles.
Coledge Visual Eko Product Line

Komatex (PVC) is similar to Sintra but contains no lead, barium or cadmium. It comes in several colors and sizes; comparable in price also. Direct print to both sides.
Komatex PVC

Green core costs less than Sintra/Komatex, but only available in 4' x 8' sheets and two thicknesses (1/4", 1/8"). There is also a brown masonite edge; but it's biodegradable and can be direct printed onto one side.
Green Core

Collections

bMuse — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:41:45 CDT

This is a GREAT resource for collections and conservation issues AIC - Green.

Green Museum Projects

bMuse — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:50:47 CDT

This page is dedicated to spreading the word about the innovative green projects happening at museums large and small around the World. It started with just North America, but clearly, one continent at a time is not a solution for the world's environmental problems!

If you are a part of a green museum project, please share your story! Add a thread to this page and be sure to include the institution name and website and a description of your project. By sharing your disappointments and successes, we can learn from one another and grow the green museum movement.

9/23/09
A little less building going on; a lot more changing habits. Two GW Museum Studies students are working at the MAryland Historical Society on research to cut their energy and materials consumptions for efficiencies for the environment and the organization.
4/3/09
MassMoCA in North Adams, MA, is hoping to build a Recovery-Act supported Solar Array and become a teaching center. Their site, with all that mill rooftop, and so close to a power distributor, sounds pretty ideal.

The Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, PA - Next Step - A LIVING BUILDING!

Here are links to two articles about the recent building project which won the Eco Structures Evergreen 2008 Award, and the next building which will be a Living Building. You must keep an eye on this project and how they go about developing the project.

Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College http://yournewburchfieldpenney.com/

When it opens in November, the Burchfield Penney Art Center is expected to be the first art museum in New York state to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. Slated for silver certification, the museum is designed to meet rigorous standards in the areas of site sustainability, water use and efficiency, reduced use of energy and atmospheric impact, use of materials and resources, improved indoor air quality and innovation and design process. In addition to LEED recognition, the museum will be a participant in the New York Energy Smart New Construction Program, meeting state standards to reduce energy usage and consumption.

Resource Links

bMuse — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:08:43 CDT

It's Easy Being GreenNEW - Wool Insulation
Braden Paynter passed on this link to UK company making Welsh wool insulation for a green building material ...and other green restoration and building materials. Have a look - it will remind you to think outside the box for great solutions.

Green Lights
A useful site for CFL information

Green Performance
You might want to look at this for your own edification, and to comment from a museum or historic site perspective...you may have ideas to add!
SSI site: The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.

Green & Historic Preservation
Elizabeth Wylie, from Finegold Alexander sent this from the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance: NH Preservation Green Guidelines

Examples or Tools
New York State's Waste Audit form for Businesses

Building or renovating - don't do it without looking at The Contractor's Waste Management Guide (for Hawaii)

This is how you know you need to Turn Off Your Computer at Night

Green Museums
The Greener Good Museum magazine article by Brophy and Wylie, January 2008.

It's Easy Being Green Museum (News) magazine bu Brophy and Wylie, September 2006

The Madison Children's Museum green exhibits website
www.greenexhibits.org

Sarah Brophy's Green Museums page with article links and some sample green museums. via www.bmuse.net

For Fun

The Union of Concerned Scientists' Green Game

The Virginia Association of Museums' Green Museum Game

A Recycling Calculator activity link - musums can run the site on exhibit computers or offer the link on take-home materials. http://www.nrc-recycle.org/theconversionator/shell.html

Green Book Reviews

bMuse — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:17:16 CDT

3/16/09
This issue of NAME's Exhibitionist is a Green Issue! They have a nifty exhibit checklist put out by OMSI, and excellent articles including one by John Jacobsen co-chair of the AAM PIC Green, and by Tim McNeil at the UCDavis Design Museum. And they have a good review of The Green Museum. If you don't get Exhibitionist regularly, but you're headed to AAM, be sure to look for the NAME booth and purchase a copy - no carbon-fueled shipping required that way.

I plan to use the issue as a textbook for my Green Museum class in the GW Museum Studies Program.

3/21/2009
Matthew S. Miller has written a very accessible book Protecting Museum Exhibits from their Environments (And Vice Versa). {"Accessible" is high praise, byt the way - makes all the difference in explaining important technical subjects.} He and I met at the Small Museums Conference in Ocean City, MD last month. And his wife Ruth Ellen Miller and John Lease have a great pamphlet that walks you through "Raising Money from Funds Hidden in Your Exhibit Lighting". It has a worksheet for assessing current energy costs versus fiber optic options. You can look into it - NoUVIR

I was tweeting last week about "save a staff member - cut your energy bills" and surely folks thought I was exaggerating, but depending upon the scale of your installations, building, or current practices, there can be significant savings made by cutting energy use, not staff. Of course, in this case installing a new system to save energy in two years can be a cash-flow challenge - but if you have a funding angel or funding opportunity based on energy conservation, DO IT. If you don't have those opportunities, then start with basic energy reduction practices in your offices and non-exhibit areas while exploring exhibit-area changes. Don't forget - the simplest act is to wait to light up your exhibits until your public walks in the door.

2/18/09
In our green world Elizabeth Wylie and I had the chance to connect to Cecily M. Grzywacz at The Getty Conservation Institute. She's written a great, HIGHLY-accessible book calledMonitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments: Tools for Conservation. I presented some of its findings to my Green Museum class, having found it very useful for discussing the importance of recognizing the differences between indoor and outdoor pollutants, and acknowledging that the VOCs we worry about for humans aren't necessarily the same problem for collections, but that other gases fine for humans are a big problem for objects. What I like best about the book, after the understandable explanations, are the clear explanations of the range of affordable monitoring devices, and the down-to-earth case studies. The book works as well for serious collections managers, registrars, and conservators as it does for busy historical society directors trying to do it all. Congratulations Cecily on 21 years of hard study. We thank you for it! SB

12/13/08
A must-read for anyone thinking beyond the basics of green: Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the Way We Make Things. It's a lovely read, and a pleasure to hold in your hands.

11/11/08
A must-read to help sort through the decision-making of 'is this better, or is this better?'.
At $10 bucks from Amazon, it doesn't get any easier!
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Decision-making

Hot Topics - Rethinking HVAC and Existing Buildings and their Collections

bMuse — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:51:46 CDT

There's a growing unrest shall we say? What is the wisdom behind tight climate control? How does that wisdom jive with actual needs and conditions and with move to energy efficiency? We've got practitioners out there...help us discuss this. SB

Green Museum Conferences

KimAndrews — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:20:13 CDT

This pages is for updates on coming conferences, comments about past ones, and a few tips on greening conferences.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

November 12, 2009 Environmental Management: Stewardship and Sustainability, Philadelphia, PA
presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

This one-day workshop will explore new approaches to controlling environmental conditions in cultural institutions. Speakers James Reilly, Director, Image Permanence Institute; Michael C. Henry, PE, AIA, Principal Engineer/Architect, Watson & Henry Associates; and Richard L. Kerschner, Director of Preservation and Conservation, Shelburne Museum will present strategies that are feasible, physically and financially, to preserve collections materials for the long-term.
Sessions include:

Review of ideal environmental conditions for collections.
Relationship between building structure and storage environments.
Best practices for environmental control, including new approaches.
Environmental monitoring and data analysis.

This program is intended for cultural heritage staff that monitor and manage environmental conditions for collections, such as registrars, facilities managers, archivists, librarians, curators, collections managers, and stewards of historic house museums. Major funding for this program is generously provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information and to register online, go to http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,479cdf23-3a93-4ac9-8b82-6518165f4b74. Still have questions? Visit our Education Program Calendar at www.ccaha.org, call 215-545-0613 or email pso@ccaha.org.

March 2009 - The VAM conference in Virginia Beach has three green programs that look very interesting.

March 26-28, 2009 in New York City - Green East: Sustainable Solutions for Business, Home and Community
Register by February 26, 2009 for FREE visitor admission to Green East and pick up your badge at the show. Your Green East registration includes access to the exhibit hall as well as admission to conference sessions, keynotes, and special events on all show days. Conference seating at Green East is on a first come, first served basis.
Please note: your Green East badge also provides complimentary admission to The Architectural Digest Home Design Show co-located on Pier 94.
http://www.greeneastexpo.com/register.html

Past Conferences
November 2008 - We'll be posting about USGBC's GreenBuild in Boston next week - wish I could be there!

October 2008 - I missed The National Trust Conference in Tulsa but hear it was fantastic and had GREAT green content.

October 2008 - The recent northeast region meeting of the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums at Strawbery Banke had a great green-meeting concept: boarding on-site. One historic building hosts up to 7 or 8 interns each summer. And it hosts conference guests. If you bring your own linens (or sleeping bag), you have a bed and bath...even a kitchen. For $25 a night, it's perfect...so much better than a hotel if you want to reduce resource use. They also took care to recommend camping sites - another low-resource option. Even better - the opening reception was pot-luck! That trick saves on staff time and food packaging, and it meant for a fabulous variety of special foods that supported the mission of the organization. It was a great creative, community-minded idea.

GREENING YOUR CONFERENCE
Promotional Materials
Be thoughtful about tote bags, leashes, and tag holders:

If you must provide bags, consider organic cotton totes (uses far less fertilizer and pesticide than traditional cotton), and encourage folks to take them only if they need them, and only if they'll reuse them in place of paper and plastic bags for shopping.
Don't provide totes at all, just 100% recycled content if you must hand out materials.
Like VAM, encourage reuse of past totes and give a prize for the oldest bag at the conference.
Require organic cotton for promotional leashes, and offer recycling for plastic badge holders (if getting them home and to the next conference doesn't demand more of the environment).
Require all event sponsor promotional goodies to be on 100% recycled or recyclable content. Perhaps instead of totes, the main sponsor can offer reusable travel mugs made from 100% corn plastic.
Require vendors to use bring only 100% recycled or recyclable give-aways for the exhibit hall.

Handouts Keep handouts electronic - at least as many as possible. Those who are desperate can use a print kiosk onsite as they can do at Virginia Association of Museums (VAM) Conference in 2008. The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museum's (MAAM) Building Museums Conference distributes much of its material on a CD at the conference - no mailing, no printing, and the CD is reyclable. What handouts you do provide should be minimized - pocket-sized information cards for schedules, and well-placed printed maps for directional materials - what you do already.

Food Service Think bulk provision to reduce packaging. This means no water bottles or soda cans at break time. Pitchers will do the trick. Box lunches are packaging nightmares. Platters of sandwiches, bowls of chips, and piles of apples will suffice and may mean that less food is wasted. Use washable utensils and serving ware. Ask attendees to bring reusable mugs for coffee and tea during the breaks. Sponsors are welcome to provide reusable mugs for those who don't bring them. Choose interim break foods that aren't individually-wrapped.

Recycling Require the conference site to arrange for recycling, and insure that well-identified receptacles for paper, and any other materials are well-distributed onsite. Conference paper waste is monumental. Be sure there are receptacles at the registration desk, and note how much your attendees pitch. It will give you the courage to hand out less next time.

Exhibits

bMuse — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:58:31 CDT

April 21, 2009
The folks at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry put together a great exhibit checklist for green - it's in the current issue of NAME's Exhibitionist and is availabe at their website...www.n-a-m-e.org.

December 11, 2008
Construction Waste Diversion This report is on the demolition of a portion of a Nature Center, but still it's a great example of how we might think when demoing a major exhibition.

Earlier this year
This is the best resource ever: The Green Exhibits Wiki. Tim McNeil and his staff and students at the UC Davis Design Museum are just leading the way, they're creating the map for green exhibits.

Looking for links to green exhibits in place in museums...please tell us your green exhibit experience so we can all learn.

Green On the Road

bMuse — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:19:20 CST

Lists of Green Presentations by Wiki Members

Date	Time	Event	Location	Speaker	Title/Topic
February 26th, 2009	Afternoon	Building Museums Conference	Washington, DC	Sarah Brophy & Jeff Hirsch of EwingCole	Green Before You Build: Steps to Take Now Wile You Plan For The Future
May 1, 2009	TBD	AAM Annual Meeting	Philadelphia	Jim Alexander, Sarah Brophy, Jeff Hirsch, Elizabeth Wylie	Onsite Insights: Green Makeover: African-American History Museum of Philadelphia

Green Exhibits

bMuse — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:57:17 CST

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Readers' Green Ideas

bMuse — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:07:54 CST

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
The recent northeast region meeting of the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums at Strawbery Banke had a great green-meeting concept: boarding on-site. One historic building hosts up to 7 or 8 interns each summer. And it hosts conference guests. If you bring your own linens (or sleeping bag), you have a bed and bath...even a kitchen. For $25 a night, it's perfect...so much better than a hotel if you want to reduce resource use. They also took care to recommend camping sites - another low-resource option.

Even better - the opening reception was pot-luck! That saves on staff time and food packaging. And it meant for a fabulous variety of special foods that supported the mission of the organization. A great creative, community-minded idea.

The Virginia Association of Museums gives a $5 discount to each person who carpools with at least two others to attend a VAM workshop. The office also helps registrants find others willing to carpool.

The APGA gave out organic cotton bags at their recent conference - the kind you should re-use for grocery shopping. Let's hope the rest of the associations do.The Virginia Association of Museums is not giving out bags, but is asking folks to bring ones from past conferences. There's a prize for the oldest one. Mine from an AAM conference is 10 years old now.

Let's spread the green conference idea. We know that the California Association of Museums has been greening conferences for awhile. There's a new page here for green conference ideas - please share and help all the museum associations hold environmentally-sustainable conferences.

TEXTILES
The textile museums can promote quilting and knitting using green materials: the knitters can use natural organic fibers including some amazing bamboo yarn; the quilters can go back to using scraps instead of newly-produced materials.