Last weekend, Professor Marcela Oliva sent her students on assignment last weekend to understand how the GIH works. Not only did they get a lesson in green building, but our excellent landscape designer, Tracy Worth, gave them on overview of the sustainable landscape.
After talking theory, we all went out and
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The Green Idea House is one family’s project to affordably retrofit their house into a net zero energy, zero carbon case study. The building has surpassed all our net zero energy, zero carbon goals, is a joy to be in and won the 2012 Green Leadership Award for Los Angeles County,
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Representatives from Mitsubishi found out that Green Idea House is making a lot more energy than we are using. As a result, they very generously gave us a long term loaner of their new i-MiEV electric vehicle to start to make our carbon neutral lifestyle a reality.
Mitsubishi has a long
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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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Just getting back from Denmarkand four full days of lectures at the international innovation and entrepreneurship school KaosPilot. Long days – but very rewarding to see the light bulbs go on in the students’ eyes. It is also rewarding to know they will be using the leadership and strategy work
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At the prompting of Pam Townsend, Senior Planner for our City, last week we hosted a meeting with city officials and residents who are experts in green building. The focus of the meeting was to start to capture what we are learning and see how planning policy, codes and incentives
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It was a joy talking about the GIH project at the USGBC’s 2nd Annual Valley Green Building Education Conference this week. Robert was honored to be presenting with Charisse Bartholomew from Healing Spaces by Design, Aravind Batra from P2S Engineering and Arthur Renault from The Reuse People, people who made
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Many thanks to Nathalie Gonzalez for sponsoring this excellent case study and Lena Ketabgian for doing a great write up.
The case study can be found at the following link: CaseStudy-greenideahouse 2a
Yesterday afternoon a team of DOE officials from Washington, D.C.and Coloradodescended on the GIH. They were eager to learn about all the innovative, affordable and off the shelf technologies we put together that gets the GIH to net zero energy and zero carbon. They are doing this to find out
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Kudos to all those who supported HB in getting a $410K grant to draw up a carbon neutral plan for the city. Doug Morino from the Easy reader did a great job of covering the story.
As contemplated in an earlier post, a carbon neutral Hermosa Beach is the next logical
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