December 2008 | Back to News
No Time To Lose designates the Brooklyn Children’s Museum as the 2008 recipient of its Grassroots Arts and the Environment Award. The award recognizes the museum’s decision to create New York City’s first LEED Silver-certified museum designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum provides an important, active model of environmentally friendly building and operations both for other institutions and for its visitors and members by committing to use sustainable, renewable and recyclable materials and systems. This effort promises to raise public awareness of how people can work and live more conscientiously in partnership with the natural environment.
The Open Space Institute/No Time to Lose, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is dedicated to supporting and producing programs that highlight the environment through the creative arts, and by engaging the community to learn about nature and scientific principles through interaction and active experience.