Last week we hosted a meeting with Leigh Jerrard from Greywater Corps who is doing innovative, yet simple and affordable things in the water conservation arena. Leigh led six of us through a very informative dialogue on making the reuse of laundry and shower water for irrigation easy, practical and
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Congratulations to our excellent web development firm, Primitive Spark. The Green Idea House website won a silver medal in best Green Website for the W3C awards! Special thanks to local residents Wendy Ficklin and Brett Ex. They are superheroes in their field.
Over the past year, many friends and neighbors like Patrick Moore and Jim Catella of the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden adopted the plants and large stones from our yard. As a result we managed to divert tons of material from the landfill. Thank you!
But we still had a
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Our ground breaking ceremony on Tuesday could not have gone better. Thank you all for your support which made that possible. With well over 100 people attending or stopping by, it was great seeing old friends and meeting new. Everyone from our Mayor, city council members, planning commissioners, key members
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I am honored to be a lecturer at an innovation school in Denmark. The school, interestingly called KaosPilot, is doing amazing things in the world and is at the cutting edge of social and business innovation.
Half way through my week long series of lectures, one of their former students, Lukas
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We were proud to be a part of Hermosa Beach’s first Green Idea City Leadership Forum that brought together 70 environmental leaders in HB to support our city in being the first carbon Neutral City in LA County – if not all of Southern California. See agenda below:
HERMOSA BEACH
GREEN IDEA
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In preparation for our move out and construction, we are having a garage sale and succulent sale on Saturday Sept. 4th from 8:30am to 3pm. Lots of Stuff! Toys, books, housewares, tools… Think of it as recycling!
1556 Prospect Avenue, Hermosa Beach, CA, 90254
As we approach out fall start date, it is time to think about undergrounding our utilities. This is mandatory as we are doing a more than 50% renovation. In meeting with our local Edison Service Planner, Ryan, he had some great ideas for saving money. One of them was to
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Despite budgetary concerns and the threat of a $700 million lawsuit against the city by MacPherson Oil, the Hermosa Beach City Council showed their commitment to being the first carbon neutral city in Los Angeles County last night when they unanimously voted to waive all permit and plan check fees
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Patrick Moore and Jim Catella, friends of the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden, came by recently to harvest two large Agave Americana from our front yard and transplant them into the MBBG. This is a great example of how being green is good for everyone:
– The MB Botanical Garden
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