The 2008-2009 Green Community Competition is oriented to challenge students to rethink their communities. From major cities to college campuses designers, planners, policy makers, and citizens are rethinking their own towns and cities’ relationship to the environment, from where the energy originates, to where the garbage goes. Green Community Competition will expand on themes from the National Building Museum’s sustainable exhibits Green Community (2008 - 2009), Big and Green (2003), and The Green House (2006 - 2007). Green Community Competition will focus entirely on the issues of sustainable development - how can we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings.

Green Community Competition offers students the opportunity to think critically about their communities looking to a sustainable future. Locate a site in your local community or region, identify the barriers and strengths to living sustainably, and develop a proposal to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. 

Judging Criteria 
Criteria for the judging of submissions will include: creativity in the design solution, successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to the full range of issues within the concept of sustainability, such as the fundamentals of architecture in accommodating human activities, use of appropriate technologies, and stewardship of resources.

Awards
The design jury will meet in June 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions for Best Overall design Proposal and Best Multidisciplinary Proposal. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa-arch.org.

First Prize
Student: 2.500 Dollars
Faculty Sponsor: 1.000 Dollars

Second Prize
Student: 1.500 Dollars
Faculty Sponsor: 750 Dollars

Third Prize
Student: 750 Dollars
Faculty Sponsor: 500 Dollars

Competition Schedule
05 December 2008: Registration Begins
09 February 2009: Registrations Deadline
20 May 2009: Submission Deadline
June 2009: Prize winners chosen by the design jury 
Summer 2009: Competition Summary Publication