Posts Tagged ‘solar’

Your Voice was Heard on Saturday re Carbon Neutral Opportunity for Hermosa Beach!
by Robert Fortunato on February 11th, 2013 No Comments »

You Made It Happen. Carbon Neutral Got the Most Votes and Selected as a Top Priority in City Council’s Strategic Planning Session!
Despite dozens of other important items that were filtered through, we commend the City Council and Staff for making Carbon Neutrality a top priority. In the human experience, making
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“Hermosa Beach Homeowners Redefine Green Living” in this week’s Easy Reader!
by Robert Fortunato on January 21st, 2013 No Comments »

Writer Katrina Zawojski and Photographer Brad Jacobson did a great job capturing the essence of the Green Idea House in this week’s Easy Reader.  In a beautifully done two page spread on pages 44 and 45, they hit the highlights that got us to net zero energy, zero carbon and
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Sandpipers Tour a Huge Success for Local Charities
by Robert Fortunato on December 20th, 2012 2 Comments »

Sandpipers Tour a Huge Success for Local Charities
Stephanie Cusack, Sandpipers’ Director of Fall Events, kindly stopped by the other day to let us know the Holiday Homes Tour – their biggest fundraiser of the year – was very successful.  We were honored to have the GIH help raise money for
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GIH Goes 100 Percent
by Robert Fortunato on August 1st, 2012 No Comments »

The Green Idea House is now featured on the Go100Percent.org site, the first web portal to comprehensively map, track, and aim to form global community around 100% renewable energy projects from around the world. Go100Percent is a project of the Renewables 100 Policy Institute and, like the Green Idea House,
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Presenting the GIH at the USGBC’s 2nd Annual Valley Green Building Education Conference
by Robert Fortunato on June 9th, 2012 No Comments »

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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Energy Upgrade CA Publishes Case Study on the Green Idea House
by Robert Fortunato on May 19th, 2012 3 Comments »

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

Department of Energy Officials like what they see on their GIH Tour
by Robert Fortunato on May 17th, 2012 No Comments »

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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Hermosa Beach (The Green Idea City) is One Step Closer to a Carbon Neutral Future
by Robert Fortunato on May 16th, 2012 No Comments »

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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Presenting the GIH at The Alt Build Conference and the Solar HomesToursYesterday!
by Robert Fortunato on May 13th, 2012 No Comments »

Interesting and interested participants on the tours and panel presentation made it a joy to share our experiences designing and building the GIH.  It was great connecting with old and new friends of the project.
At 9am and 10am we ran tours (outside only) as part of the South Bay Solar
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Two FREE Opportunities This Saturday to See How the GIH Works!
by Robert Fortunato on May 9th, 2012 No Comments »

At 9am and 10am on Saturday May 9th we will be running tours (outside only) as part of the South Bay Solar and Green Homes Tour put on by the Environmental Priorities Network.  Nine other families will be opening their houses for the tour as well: SolarGreenHomesTour 2012
Also on Saturday at
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