A great group from one of our key partners, Southern California Edison, came to tour the house yesterday. These are the thoughtful people at SCE who are working on getting us all to two key energy efficiency goals:
The PUC guideline that all new construction is net zero energy by 2020
California
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Kathleen Jacecko, Founder/Director of TeachingGreen, posted an excellent interview about the Green Idea House at: http://teachinggreen.org/the_green_idea_house.html
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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The very sophisticated LA Confidential magazine used that quote to describe our house in this months issue:
http://la-confidential-magazine.com/living/articles/eco-friendly-home-hermos
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Special thanks to Kathy McDonald for the excellent article.
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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We are honored to have a guest spot in the studio on the Home Wizards show with Cindy Dole and Eric Stromer on KFWB –CBS Radio Los Angeles.
Tune in around 8:45am – 980 on your AM Radio dial. We will be with the hosts and Janine Kubert from Build it
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Our total energy use in our old house since 2005 (including the conversion for natural gas usage) averaged 1,561 kwh/month. We are currently averaging about 200 kwh/month in total energy. The reduction in the total energy load is 87% (vs previous house) while adding 800sq.ft!
In addition, we are generating, on
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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
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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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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