Profiles in Green: Scott Sampson, Green Home Visionary
By Beth Murray
By Beth Murray
Scott is a LEED certified architect. Most people want to prevent green things from growing in their bathroom crevices, but Scott Sampson is trying to find just the right moss to thrive there. Scott, a LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) architect who moved to Swarthmore last year with his wife, Curtiss Hannum, and their 22-month-old son, Luke, is interested in the relationship between plants and people. “Plants want the carbon dioxide we let off,” he says. “They want to be with us.”
The moss Scott is growing – on a small dessert plate – was taken from a rock in Crum Creek. “It was already coming loose from the rock,” Scott promises. He is looking for the best species of moss to cover one wall of the first-floor bathroom of his home at the corner of Dartmouth and Amherst – the Detweiler house, as many in Swarthmore know it. Scott envisions the moss absorbing the room’s excess moisture and giving off oxygen. “What a great way to start the day,” he predicts.
The moss Scott is growing – on a small dessert plate – was taken from a rock in Crum Creek. “It was already coming loose from the rock,” Scott promises. He is looking for the best species of moss to cover one wall of the first-floor bathroom of his home at the corner of Dartmouth and Amherst – the Detweiler house, as many in Swarthmore know it. Scott envisions the moss absorbing the room’s excess moisture and giving off oxygen. “What a great way to start the day,” he predicts.
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