Internationally Acclaimed Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Brings Big Band Sound to Tradition Hilton Head May 18

Big band music lovers will swing to the sentimental sound of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, led by renowned trombonist Buddy Morrow, at Tradition Hilton Head in Hardeeville, S.C., on Sunday, May 18, as part of a celebration of the closing of tours of the HGTV Green Home.

The highly successful tours of the eco-friendly home, featured on HGTV and which will be given away, are raising thousands of dollars for the United Way of the Lowcountry.

The public is invited to the free open-air concert beginning at 5 p.m. on the lawn between the Green Home and Tradition Hilton Head National Golf Course’s Pro Shop. The public is encouraged to come early. Coolers will not be allowed but refreshments will be available. People are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. The Green Home will be open for final tours until 8 p.m.

Tradition Hilton Head, a 5,300-acre master-planned, green and sustainable mixed-use community being developed by Core Communities of South Carolina, is presenting the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra concert as thanks to the community for supporting the United Way by touring the HGTV Green Home.

“People throughout the United States and overseas have taken tours of the HGTV Green Home, and through the purchase of tickets, they are supporting the United Way and its 39 agencies that work to make our community a better place to live,” said David Page, President of Tradition Hilton Head.

“They’ve also benefited in learning how they can make their homes and lives greener through Tradition Hilton Head’s Green Preview Center,” he said.

The Green Preview Center, located next to Tradition Hilton Head’s Welcome Center, is a state-of-the-art showroom which features many components of green construction practices used in achieving LEED Gold Certification.

“These green components can also be implemented into your new home construction here at Tradition from any of our preferred builders,” Page said.

Morrow is considered one of the world's great trombone players and is a frequent featured performer with bands of the big band era. Under his direction, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra retains the authentic sound and style of Dorsey while incorporating contemporary music into the repertoire. Morrow first played with Dorsey in 1938.

The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is recognized as one of the best all-time big band dance bands. Dorsey, dubbed "the sentimental gentleman of swing," was a master at creating warm, romantic, and melodic moods. Perhaps his band’s most famous singer was Frank Sinatra.

Dorsey died in 1956.
For more information, visit www.TraditionHH.com and www.buddymorrowproductions.com

Columnist says Sun City Hilton Head should follow Tradition Hilton Head's lead

Please read Carl Lehmann's column in Bluffton Today, published April 24.
Here is an excerpt:
Sun City should be green with envy
In the olden days, being green was a pejorative used for people without experience. Today, being green is hip and fashionable. Of course, most people, including the Beloved and I, are still green when it comes to being green. However, we took the opportunity to learn more about being green by visiting the HGTV Green Home at Tradition Hilton Head. Just in case anyone does not know where that is, it is that huge new development on 5600 acres on U.S. 278 in Hardeeville where 9,300 homes will be built.

Everybody's blogging!

Bloggers are all about HGTV's Green Home (and giveaway) at Tradition Hilton Head!
They are popping up like spring flowers every day. Here are a few:

Pink a Doodle Doo blog (yes, that’s it’s name, and it’s kid-safe…)

Moon Dreams and Day Beams

The Bird’s Nest

The Stamford Wife

Sugar and Spice and Mostly Nice

Shelter, Creating a Home that Heals the Soul

Ingleside

Home TV

Ice Cream Mama

I'm in the Army too

Molly's Mom

Energy-saving features in the HGTV Green Home

Carolinas for Boomers

Nova Blog

Hooked on Houses

Holy Vataha

Simple + Green

Stacey Macioszek's Bluffton area real estate blog

A Green Community for the Green Home

(From HGTV.com)

Posted by kwalters – April 22, 2008 1:29 PM

Happy Earth Day! Looking for new ways to honor this big planet we call home? Why not start in your own neighborhood?

- Sign up at HGTV.com/changetheworld to volunteer for green projects in your community.
- Type in your zip code to find local green resources from the ever-growing list at ecologue.com.
- Carpool, take public transportation, bike or walk to work.
- Buy food from local farmers (your taste buds will thank you).

The Green Home is part of a planned community called Tradition Hilton Head, which is built around a town square. In addition to being a great place to watch concerts, play with your kids or hang out with your friends, a town square makes walking and biking easy, reducing our dependence on cars, which cuts gasoline use and decreases the space needed for parking.

Village Square will be anchored by the town's food market and will feature an eclectic variety of stores, cafes and restaurants; anticipated shops include a bank, microbrewery, coffee shop, pizza parlor and hair salon.

Tradition encourages homeowners to use cleaner forms of transportation by providing a golf cart with every home. And to promote a healthy lifestyle, Tradition features over 450 acres of lakes, parks and gardens, plus miles of trails for biking and walking. Golfers can play the Tradition National Golf Course, which is a member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses and is working toward being certified by the program.

Learn more about Tradition Hilton Head

For more on sustainable neighborhoods, visit the US Green Building Council's Neighborhood Development Rating System.

U.S. Green Building Council Will Tour
Tradition Hilton Head’s HGTV Green Home on Earth Day

HARDEEVILLE, SC (April 16, 2008) – The Savannah chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council will tour Tradition Hilton Head’s HGTV Green Home in observance of Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22 here.

Tradition Hilton Head’s developer, Core Communities, has long been recognized nationally for its commitment to environmental stewardship, placing great importance on building sustainable communities and protecting the environment.

And a great way to observe Earth Day is to take a close-up look at HGTV’s Green Home, HGTV’s first such project.

“The Green Home represents the focus that Tradition Hilton Head puts on being a sustainable, environmentally sensitive community”, said David Page, president of Tradition Hilton Head. “The Green Home is a testament to the fact that our community is looking to the future, not only in preserving the environment but in building homes that retain their value,” he said.

Page noted that being selected as the location for HGTV’s first Green Home demonstrates Tradition Hilton Head’s commitment to eco-friendly and energy efficient development.

“Tradition Hilton Head welcomes the Savannah chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, and we are confident their members will be pleased with what HGTV and Tradition Hilton Head are doing in this green revolution, which we believe is here to stay,” Page said.

Page emphasized: “Core Communities’ leadership in green design is just part of the responsible way the company has chosen to conduct business. He said “The excitement and interest about HGTV’s Green Home has been amazing since the home opened for tours on March 24. In less than a month’s time, some 5,000 tours have been conducted of the home.”

The U.S. Green Building Council is a non-profit organization which developed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

The HGTV Green Home is LEED-certified. LEED addresses all building types and emphasizes state-of-the-art strategies for sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials and resources selection, and indoor environmental quality. A practical rating tool for green building design and construction, LEED provides immediate and measurable results for building owners and occupants.

Vessela P. Valtcheva-McGee, chairwoman of the Savannah chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and an architect with Dawson Wissmach, said she anticipates up to a hundred people to attend the reception at Tradition Hilton, and a large number of them to tour the HGTV Green Home.

“What better proof that sustainable design is on its way to becoming a standard when a network like HGTV decides they want to create a new show around it,” she said. “As advocates of sustainable practices and high performance buildings, we are thrilled to see the first ever HGTV Green Home in our very own back yard. Designed by a local architecture firm and built in a local development, the Green Home features the implementation of green principles in a traditional and appropriate architectural expression.”

Members of the U.S. Green Building Council include building owners and end-users, real estate developers, facility managers, architects, designers, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors, product and building system manufacturers, government agencies, and nonprofits.

Savannah and Lowcountry members of the U.S. Green Building Council will tour the home from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

The public is invited to tour the HGTV Green Home daily through May 18. Proceeds from the public tours benefit the United Way of the Lowcountry. Call (843) 208-5300 or visit www.TraditionHiltonHead.com for more information.

Earth Day was first observed in the United States in 1970, the year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established, and is celebrated worldwide on April 22.

Tradition Hilton Head welcomes builder of EarthCraft House-certified green home

Scott Homes of the Lowcountry has begun construction of an environment-sustaining, EarthCraft-certified home at Tradition Hilton Head, the 5,300-acre, master-planned community being developed here by Core Communities.

The first home Scott Homes is building in Tradition Hilton Head is an EarthCraft-certified three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath Lowcountry design. It will feature a wraparound front porch and rear garage. As an EarthCraft home, builders must adhere to certain standards on construction, heating and air, insulation, appliances, and furnishings.

Tradition Hilton Head is quickly building a national reputation for its “green” focus. It is the location of HGTV’s first-ever Green Home, which has attracted more than 3,500 tours since opening on March 24. The $20 per person tours include both a walkthrough of the HGTV home and an inspection of Tradition’s Green Preview Center.

“Scott Homes, our newest builder at Tradition Hilton Head, epitomizes the high standards Tradition Hilton Head has set for our sustainable and eco-friendly community,” said David Page, Tradition Hilton Head’s president.

“We are very pleased to welcome a builder of such high quality and integrity as Scott Homes,” Page said.

As a family-owned, fourth-generation homebuilding company in Beaufort County, Scott Homes is committed to the construction of residences that have minimum impact on the environment, said Scott Leiti, president of Scott Homes.

“With the growing concern for keeping the Lowcountry pristine, we have become EarthCraft certified, which allows us to deliver energy efficient, environmentally friendly residences,” Leiti said.

“Preliminary engineering calculations show that utilities will cost approximately $120 per month for the 2,240-square-foot home,” Leiti said. “We are very excited about the opportunity that Tradition Hilton Head has to offer to environment- and energy-efficiency-minded customers and builders.”

Leiti said the home, designed by Sam Liberti of Low Tide Designs in Bluffton based on an original design by Moser Design Group, will be valued at approximately $495,000 and will feature engineered wood products and hardwood flooring, open cell spray foam insulation, house wrap and air sealing to reduce air infiltration for reduced energy use, high performance windows with low emittance glass for reduced energy use, 90-plus percent efficient furnace, carpet made from recycled material, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and a tankless hot water system.

EarthCraft House was created in 1999 as a residential green building program of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association in partnership with Southface, a nonprofit corporation that provides environmental education and outreach programs for builders and communities.

For more information on Tradition Hilton Head, visit www.TraditionHiltonHead.com. For additional information on Scott Homes, visit www.scottdevcorp.com, and for more information on EarthCraft Homes, visit www.earthcrafthouse.com.