The BlueArchitect.org is a nonprofit 501(c)3 that is dedicated to achieving global water fluency through public education, community outreach, and demonstration projects.
Marilyn Crenshaw, The Blue and Green Architect, began compiling a database of green building links in 2000, as a resource for her architectural firm and to share with building professionals and the local community. Within a few years the database had grown to 1,000’s of links and outgrew the architectural office’s capacity to maintain it. It became obvious that the informational database was worthy of becoming its own project and needed to expand to the next level. In 2012, the TheBlueArchitect.org was formed to promote a sustainable global water system through water architecture, serve as a global hub connecting all entities concerned with water in order to accelerate interaction and mass water fluency, and establish a “new normal” water policy for how society lives in harmony and abundance with water on the planet.
TheBlueArchitect.org offers a wealth of instructional information via links, videos, articles, and continuing education credits for professionals and students regarding:
- water issues, challenges and solutions, global water statistics, global water energy nexus
- DIY how to guides
- manufactures of water (blue) system building products
- installers and consultants of blue services
- local, state, national, and international water guides, codes, policies, and legislation
- other water-related nonprofit organizations
- community water action groups
- innovators and experts
- aquifer and watershed stewardship
- water related schools, degrees, certificates, and educational programs
- trade industry groups
- Integrated Water Resource Management
TheBlueArchitect.org serves:
- design and engineering professionals, builders and developers, those in the construction industry sector, facility managers, construction industry trade and union labor groups, educators, community development agencies and action groups, consumers who are interested in having water efficient residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural building and infrastructure development applications, and concerned citizens interested in being good water stewards.
We are continuously expanding the database and request that you share links about blue and green resources, products, services, tutorials, workshops, conferences, events, tours, etc.
Our blog features the latest discussions on water issues and conservation topics ranging from different cisterns and water catchment systems from around the world to the global water-energy nexus. We urge you to join the conversation with your ideas and comments.
Our vision….. is a world in which every human is empowered with the knowledge of how to respect and use water with methods that achieve water security and abundance in balance with the earth’s water cycle.
Our mission….. is to provide public education on sustainable water architecture and to improve global water fluency through learning and community outreach.
Our values are…. equality, education, abundance, accessibility, community, leadership