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6th annual sustainability tour

Scenes of Green: Touring Missoula’s Most Innovative Homes


By Alexia Beckerling, 6-16-08

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This weekend, homeWORD hosted the 6th Annual Sustainability Tour. The public was invited to visit 12 Missoula homes that are creative examples of innovative urban land use, energy conservation, water resource management, and remodeling with recycled building materials. The overall aim of the tour was to show the public that building green on a limited budget is an achievable goal.

Some of the highlights of the tour were a visit to the C.J. Austen nine-plex on Sherwood Avenue with Steve Loken pointing out water and energy-saving technologies such as a storm cistern for rooftop run off and solar water heating panels. Brandon and Diana Jankovich impressed visitors with their vegetable garden and greenhouse, which provide them with half of their food for a whole year. An historic home on W. Pine St. owned by Becky Douglas and Gary Delp showed the results of remodeling with reclaimed building materials. And a visit to the rooftop garden of the Gold Dust apartment complex developed by homeWORD was another reminder that urban spaces can be sustainable.



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