Ribbon Cutting & Launch: SFSU Sustainable Materials Library
You are warmly invited to celebrate the grand opening of the SFSU Sustainable Materials Library—the first physical library in the country dedicated exclusively to sustainable and recycled materials. Join us for the ribbon cutting on Friday, May 22nd at Noon at Humanities Building 130, Tapia Drive [Across the street from Marcus Hall at 8 Tapia Drive], San Francisco State University. The ribbon itself is made from salvaged Eucalyptus bark and dusted with glitter from Eucalyptus fiber — even the ceremony will reflect this fantastic, trailblazing collection!
Cutting the ribbon will be Tyrone Jue, Director of the San Francisco Environment Department, joined by SFSU Professor/Lecturer and Library Director JD Beltran, Co-Founders Richard Ortiz, Justin Wong, Jacksaline Perez, and Emily Grandcolas, and the Student Co-Founders who built this remarkable resource over four years. The library was also made possible by Climate HQ, SFSU's groundbreaking climate agency, whose generous support helped bring this vision to life.
The library is a globally-sourced collection of innovative materials to inspire product designers, architects, engineers, artists, and anyone in the creative industries includes mushroom leather, hemp concrete, newspaper wood, eggshell bricks, and beyond. It is open to the SFSU community and the general public alike. People can explore the full collection online at green-library.org.
Come explore the future of sustainable design, touch, feel, and smell the materials, grab a green fortune cookie foretelling your future, and meet the people who made it happen.