The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
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The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
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The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
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Maine Nonprofit Environmental Education Center Kicks Off Public Phase of Capital Campaign.
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The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
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The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
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Take a look, behind-the-scenes, at the construction of our dining commons and dormitory at River Bend Farm.
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In 2019, The Ecology School broke ground on its new campus at River Bend Farm in Saco, Maine. Upon completion, The Ecology School will become the most sustainable building in the Northeast following “Living Building Challenge” guidelines, the first one of its kind to be constructed here in Maine. Hancock Lumber is proud to be supplying the building materials on this special project in Saco!
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Take a look, behind-the-scenes, at the construction of our dining commons and dormitory at River Bend Farm.
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The Ecology School receives “first in the world” designation after submitting Vision and Master Plan for the International Living Future Institute’s Living Community Challenge.
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“Doing LEED certification, even Platinum, didn’t seem like it was groundbreaking enough,” Drew Dumsch says. “When I looked at the Living Building Challenge ... it felt like it was describing what we wanted to do anyway.”
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Take a look, behind-the-scenes, at the construction of our dining commons and dormitory at River Bend Farm.
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An environmental education center in southern Maine has broken ground on what it promises will be the most sustainable new construction in the Northeast.
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A spotlight on the toxicity in building materials and how The Ecology School’s new construction will significantly diminish hazards, helping to lay the foundations for lifelong health.
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Take a look, behind-the-scenes, at the construction of our dining commons and dormitory at River Bend Farm.
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The Ecology School in Saco has begun constructing campus structures designed to meet what are said to be the world’s most rigorous building performance standards.
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Maine’s most ambitious sustainable building project relies heavily on Maine’s most traditional building material.
The Ecology School broke ground on a 9,000-square-foot dormitory and a 7,000-square-foot dining commons. The buildings, which are expected to be completed by spring 2020, will meet criteria for the Living Building Challenge green building certification program
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On July 23, 2019 donors, friends, and government officials came together to celebrate the ceremonial breaking ground for construction of our Living Building Challenge dormitory and dining commons.
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In 2019, The Ecology School is embarking on a rigorous construction project to create a dining commons and dormitory that will exceed the greenest of the green standards in building. We are passionate about living our mission and dedicated to “practicing what we preach” at River Bend Farm. This is why we have chosen to seek Living Building Challenge certification.
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