Poster with helpful tips (PDF)

Habitat for Humanity Tucson Builds Greenest Homes Ever
First Homes to Receive Pima County Green Certification

With assistance from Pima County, Habitat for Humanity Tucson has built the “greenest” homes in the history of the Tucson program. Habitat worked with Pima County Department of Environmental Quality and Pima County Development Services’ Green Building Program to include gray water plumbing, increased energy efficiency, recycling of construction materials and other initiatives during the home-building process. These initiatives earned them an EPA Energy Star certification, the Tucson Electric Power Energy Guarantee, and the first ever Silver Certificates from the Pima County Regional Residential Green Building Program.
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Become a Habitat Homeowner

Join us for a free Habitat for Humanity Tucson homeownership information session to learn more about how you could qualify for a Habitat home.

What: Habitat for Humanity would like to invite you to attend one of the two sessions listed below. At these sessions, information regarding the homeownership program will be presented and applications for the program will be distributed. Please be sure to make your reservation in advance. Space is limited.

When/Where: Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 10 a.m. *
621 W. Lester St., Tucson, AZ 85705

* Please call Linda Ware at 520-326-1217 x 202 for your reservation prior to July 31, 2009

Filters from different monitoring sites during the week of the 22^nd.
Darker samples are from Wednesday.

Highest Particulate Levels Ever Measured on July 22

Remember when the mountains disappeared behind a wall of dust? The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (PDEQ) reports that on July 22, the department’s air quality monitors recorded the highest levels of particulate matter (PM₁₀) ever monitored in Pima County. An air quality advisory was issued that morning by the department and the filters were collected from the monitoring sites the next day to begin the time consuming process required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine the accurate weight of the particulate matter captured on the filters. The PM₁₀ (particulate matter that is 10 microns or less in diameter) reading at the Orange Grove monitoring site for Wednesday, July 22 was 270 micrograms/cubic meter of air. The EPA Health Standard for PM₁₀ is 150 micrograms/cubic meter.
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Back To School Eco-Smart & Wallet Wise

How can parents save money, save resources, and do something good for the planet while getting the kids ready for school?  Pima County Department of Environmental Quality suggests trying one or two of the tips below to be eco-friendly and save money. Some tips require up front costs, but will last for a long time and reduce the need for future purchases while eliminating waste. Others will need a little extra initial planning and will reap significant benefits throughout the rest of the school year. All of the tips are a teaching opportunity to highlight the importance of conserving financial and natural resources.
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This section of the E-Scoop will be a regular feature designed to get employees involved with and to communicate important information about Project PimaCore.

Project PimaCore Question of the Month

Where will the software demonstrations be held and on what date will they begin? (Hint)

If you know the answer to this question, e-mail pimacore@pima.gov

The first person to respond will be recognized in next month’s E-Scoop.

Puzzler

Think you know Pima County?

A famous landmark. (click to enlarge)

Of the two images immediately above, one is accurate. The other one has five alterations.

Identify the building, and find the five things that are different between the photos. See if you can identify which one is true (photo "A" or photo "B").

Enlarging the images should help make some of the changes easier to see.

Bonus: Identify the the area in the image below.

(click to enlarge)

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