We were honored to have a delegation from the Japanese government (that came all the way from Japan!) tour the Green Idea House. As a result of the tsunami and nuclear reactor incident in Fukashima, the Japanese want all their buildings to work like the Green Idea House, making more
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Better than Santa’s elves, Building Commissioners Peter Hoffman, PhD and Michael Flaherty braved the elements and their holiday schedules to tour of the Green Idea House today. The Building Commissioners were interested in understanding how we designed and built a Net Zero Energy/Zero Carbon house for less cost than standard
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Very happy to have City Council Members Nanette Barragan and Hany Fangary tour of the Green Idea House yesterday. The Council Members were interested in understanding how we designed and built a Net Zero Energy/Zero Carbon house for less cost than standard construction using off the shelf technologies that are
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We were honored to have the award winning Environmental Charter High School request a tour of our Green Idea House. The students arrived as promised, 75 in the morning and 75 in the afternoon. When we asked the students why they were interested in touring the Green Idea House, without
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It has been six months and 5000 miles since we purchased our Mitsubishi i-miev all electric vehicle. The long and short of it is that we love it! We enjoy driving it more than we expected and the cost of ownership savings will pay for the car in its 100K lifespan.
For the
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Robert is honored to be speaking about the Green Idea House at the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon at the Great Park in Irvine on Saturday at 1pm – 2pm.
At this FREE event that is open to the public, teams from all over the world assemble sustainable houses on site
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We are honored to be mentioned in the latest Sierra Club Newsletter. Eva Cicoria did an excellent job profiling our Green Idea House project in their May newsletter. We are pleased to be mentioned in their piece about the environmental and economic issues related to a proposed oil drilling project
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Dear Friends and Partners of the Green Idea House,
As we start to turn our attention to new adventures, we would like to sincerely thank all of you for helping to make the impossible, possible. It has been an incredible 7 year odyssey designing, retrofitting and now living in the Green
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Honored to be teaching the Green Building segment of Mark Kowalczyk’s Construction Management Class at UCLA tonight. Sat in on the first class and was impressed with Mark’s acumen as well as the level of architect, contractor and project manager students in the room. Will be fun relaying the thought
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We were honored to be invited to share perspectives at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting inChicagothis past week. The meeting was hosted by President Bill Clinton, Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Clinton Foundation Board Member Chelsea Clinton.
More than 1,000 people attended the
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