It was an honor to have the Green Idea House on the prestigious Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour. Debbie Felt, the Sandpipers President, just let us know that more than 2,500 people went on the tours and they raised over $84,000 for local charities. Go Sandpipers! http://sandpipers.org/category/holiday-homes-tour/
It was a win-win because
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Our city runs an excellent program called Leadership Hermosa Beach which teaches an active civics lesson while overviewing the operations the city departments. The program also engages each of the students in a class project for the betterment of the city. Hats off to all the volunteers like Ryan and
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Dear Friends of a Carbon Neutral Hermosa Beach,
If you care about:
improving the economy, ecology and health of the residents of Hermosa Beach
implementing the excellent sustainability plan the GTF created, Blue Zones and Livable Cities
Breathing cleaner air and swimming in cleaner water
Getting possible grant monies and donations for the city that
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Pam Townsend, Senior Planner at the City of Hermosa Beach very kindly offered to bring a team of UCLA students and their Professor, Juan Matute, for a tour of the Green Idea House to get ideas for their Senior project. Their project is to assist the City with their Carbon
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While Robert was working in Denmark, Monica and Carter accepted the South Bay Business Environmental Coalition’s SEED Award for Environmental Leadership. We are honored that the business community would recognize a family project in this way and are touched that so many of the people who supported the Green Idea
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Robert was interviewed by CNBC for a green energy/solar story with Jane Wells that is scheduled to be on throughout the day – with airings at 8:45am Pacific Time, again in possibly Power Lunch (10am PT hour), Closing Bell (12 or 1pm PT hours), Kudlow Report (4pm PT hour), and
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Our friends at the U.S. Green Building Council, South Bay Chapter are hosting an interesting event on Wednesday evening on hydrogen fuel cell applications at the Toyota facility in Torrance. Look forward to seeing you there!
Registration information: http://www.usgbc-la.org/?load_url=%2Fwidget%2Fevents%3FeventId%3D561742%26EventViewMode%3DEventDetails
See attached flyer: Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Flyer
The GIH will be on the very prestigious Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour (see flyer link below). This all volunteer group raises money for local charities and we are honored to be a part of it. Typically, about 3,000 people go through the homes during the tour weekend and, as a
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As part of their GreenNG initiative, Nothrop Grumman invited Robert for their quarterly guest speaker series. Very high security only added to the drama… The hour long presentation was recorded and will be available on the NG intranet for their 40,000+ employees!
A great group from one of our key partners, Southern California Edison, came to tour the house yesterday. These are the thoughtful people at SCE who are working on getting us all to two key energy efficiency goals:
The PUC guideline that all new construction is net zero energy by 2020
California
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