Visit to the Wild Center

If you've never visited the Wild Center, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks in Tupper Lake, NY, I highly recommend it.



It is the first museum in New York to be granted a LEED Silver certification for green buildings. The certification is based on a number of demonstration technologies, such as a constructed stormwater wetland


A living wall


A cistern for collecting and storing roof runoff


Permeable pavement


And a green roof.


If you've never seen these technolgies firsthand, the Wild Center offers a great way to learn about them. The museum also makes the trip well worth it.

Posted by: Rebecca Buerkett, Project Scientist, Sustainable Environments Editor