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Degrees:
MDesS, Harvard Grad. School of Design
B.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Mary Rickel Pelletier initiates new strategies for environmentally sensitive design projects that conserve and revitalize natural resources within cities. She is Founding Director of Park Watershed, a 501c3 urban-suburban environmental stewardship organization for the Park River regional watershed. Her work currently involves a wide range of collaborations with interdisciplinary design professionals, scientists, cultural historians, citizens, non-profits and government agencies. Due to her background in Fine Arts and Architectural Design, Mary approaches the emergence of sustainable design practices as an integrative, creative process. She served as Visiting Design Studio Advisor to the Cornell University 2005 Solar Decathlon entry. In 1998, as Visiting Architectural Design Advisor, at the Rhode Island School of Design, Mary outlined the new challenges of high-performance green building technology in her studio, 'Giving Sustainable Design Critical Edge'. She worked as an Adjunct Architectural Design Studio Critic at the University of Kansas, School of Architecture between 1987 and 1992. http://www.parkwatershed.org/urban-birds/ |
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Sustainable Urban Design
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Urban-Suburban Watershed Stewardship
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High-Performance Green K-12 Schools
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Green Roofs for Stormwater Management
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American 20th century Architecture
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Architectural Design
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Urban planning and design for climate change resiliency
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Ecosystem service benefits, such as green infrastructure for stormwater management
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Civic news and information on local, regional and global natural resources
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Municipal and state park design and management for wildlife habitat connectivity
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Publications:
- Pelletier, Mary. “Green Infrastructure for Blue Urban Watersheds.” In Green Community, edited by Susan Piedmont-Palladino and Timothy Mennel, 96-103. American Planning Association Planners Press with the National Building Museum, 2009.
- Pelletier, Mary. “Connecticut Green Infrastructure: Clean Water Site by Site.” State of Sound Report, by Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment (2011).
- Pelletier, Mary. “Eight Ideas to Reduce our Energy Addition: RadiantFLR2.” Metropolis Magazine of Architecture and Design (May 2009): p. 96.
- Pelletier, Mary. “Why Hartford Needs a Green Agenda.” The Hartford Courant (October 28, 2007).
- Pelletier, Mary. “Criteria for a Greener Metropolis.” In The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City, edited by Rutherford Platt, 261-277. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.
- Pelletier, Mary and Wilson, Alex. “A Garden Overhead: The Benefits and Challenges of Green Roofs.” Environmental Building News 10, no. 11 (November 2001): 1, 10-17. Reprinted for the first International Green Roofs Conference, May 2003.
- Pelletier, Mary, Brown, David E.. and Fox, Mindy (ed.). Sustainable Architecture White Papers. New York: The Earth Pledge Foundation, 2000. 6th printing 2006.
Presentations:
- Pelletier, Mary. “Urban Agricultural Strategies.” Plenary Diaglogue and Design Advisor, Water Design Charrette, University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. Lawrence, KS, January 22-24, 2015.
- Pelletier, Mary. Panelist: Panel discussion following presentation by Tom Tyler, DEEP Director of State Parks. The Centennial of Connecticut State Parks, Hartford, CT, August 13, 2013.
- Pelletier, Mary. Coordinator (with MDC, CT DEP and Capital Region Council of Governments): “US EPA: Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure.” Hartford, CT, July 8-9, 2009.
- Pelletier, Mary and Colbert, Mark. “RadiantFLR2 Product Design Concept.” International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). New York, NY, May 18, 2009.
- Pelletier, Mary. “Sites of Water: Transforming Community Landscapes.” Water Matters: The Place of Water in the World: Ritual, Beauty, and the Environment Symposium. South Hadley, MA, April 5, 2005.
- Pelletier, Mary. “Benefits of Building High Performance Green Schools.” Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Building Energy Conference. Boston, MA, March 3, 2003.
- Pelletier, Mary. “Shaping a Civic Climate.” The Humane Metropolis:
People and Nature in the 21st Century City, A Symposium to Celebrate and
Continue the Work of William H. Whyte. New York, NY, June 6, 2002.
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- City of Hartford Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, January 2005-present.
- U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds: funding awarded to City of Hartford with project team lead Dr. Joan Morrison, Professor of Biology at Trinity College, and Park Watershed, May 2011-December 2013.
- CT DEEP Section 319 Funding: North Branch Park River Watershed Management Implementation, with North Central Conservation District: 09-02a for the construction of bioswales to capture stormwater runoff. February 2012-August 2014.
- Urban Waters Learning Network Community “Fellow” organizational development and National Urban Waters Learning Network pilot participant. A program of US Environmental Protection Agency administered by River Network and Groundwork USA. Included scholarships to annual River Rally. May 2011-June 2013.
- North Branch Park River Watershed Management Plan: Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection funding awarded to Fuss & O’Neill, Inc., and its project team, which included New England Environmental, Inc., Farmington River Watershed Association, and Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative. June 2001-July 2010.
- EPA: Healthy Cities Community Grant: funding awarded to The Children’s Museum, for a two-year stream survey program in partnership with Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative and the Farmington River Watershed Association. August 2007-January 2010.
- Member of the Green Communities Advisory Council to the 2008 National Building Museum exhibit. Washington, DC. November 2007-January 2009.
- Finalist with Mark Colbert (E3verdura): "RadiantFlr2 concept." Metropolis Next Generation Fix Our Energy Addiction Competition. New York, NY. May 2009.
- Hope Springs Eternal Finalist: Art and Community Landscapes (with T. Starr and S. Gilles-Smith). New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Parks Service, and Chelsea Creek Restoration Partnership. Chelsea, MA. May 2004.
- The Ecological Cities Project: funding for the ‘Park River Watershed Discovery.’ Included in The Ecological Cities Project study funded by National Science Foundation Grant No. CMS-0201409. 2002-2004.
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