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
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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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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Enter the Green Label Sweepstakes. In this sweepstakes, one lucky Los Angeles County homeowner will win a free GreenPoint Rating. A GreenPoint Rater will help you evaluate your home and the points awarded for your green home features. Your home must achieve a minimum point value in order to qualify
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One of Robert’s favorite Green Conferences is the MGBCE sponsored by the USGBC. Robert has been going for the last five years and has been learning something new that he has applied to the project every year. So it was a real pleasure to be able to give back during
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We are honored to receive the award on behalf of all of you who have supported us over the last five years in bringing this to fruition.
It was a pleasure meeting the other award winners at the County Supervisor’s meeting and our son, Carter, was thrilled to get the morning
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Thanks to Dawnya Bartsch and Chris Miller for wonderful the article and photo.
http://www.tbrnews.com/articles/2012/04/21/hermosa_beach_news/news02.txt
A number of you have asked, so we did want to clarify a few points from the article:
– instead of radiant floor heating, we used Runtal baseboard heaters. They are much less expensive and operate more efficiently in
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This was only possible because all of you came together as a community around the idea that anyone can and should build with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind. Thank you!
Special thanks go out to the City of Hermosa Beach’s Senior Planner, Pam Townsend who used her own personal time
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