We got so busy having the Green Idea House on the Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour that we neglected to post John Wyatt’s excellent article in Walls and Ceilings Magazine. Although the article is a good read for anyone, it is good to know that the contractor press is getting the
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The GIH was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article about architectural salvage. Reading some of the comments that followed the article prompted us to post the following. Chime in if you have a comment.
“The Reuse People are doing several things that have real, tangible economic value that benefits
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Thanks to Pui-Wing Tam for including our Green Idea House project in her excellent article on Deconstruction. We would also like to thank Ethan Pines and his assistant Carla, who spent seven hours at our house on Saturday making sure the photos were beautiful – and featured on the front
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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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Last night the City Council was generally very supportive of a Carbon Neutral city in day two of their strategic planning session. They just need our help in making it the priority it deserves. We wrote them another letter (below and attached) to help them get there. Please contact them
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After attending the strategic planning session last night, Robert felt compelled to send a note (attached and below) to city council and staff. If you are available, tell them what you think during the session tonight at 7pm in the civic center.
Dear Mayor Duclos, City Council and Staff,
It was a
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We just found out that the Green Idea House was selected to receive the GreenPoint Rated Award for Custom Builder of the year from Build It Green at their annual celebration and fundraiser on December 6th. Build It Green is a Bay Area nonprofit that works with building and real estate professionals, local and
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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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