Many thanks to all our friends, old and new, who participated in the Green Idea House Award Ceremony and Tour. Mayor Hany Fangary was a most gracious and eloquent M.C for the event. The superhero speakers included: Dency Nelson, Alison Diaz, Professor Marcela Oliva and Monique Ehsan. We are grateful
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Join us this Saturday at 10am for an exterior tour of the Green Idea House. For the fourth year in a row will be part of the EPN Green South Bay Tour.
Learn:
Why the electric utility pays us to run our house and car
Why it cost less to build and operate
How
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While working in Denmark last week, a couple of leaders and students from the KaosPilot school joined me in my annual pilgrimage to places in Scandinavia that are leading the way on sustainability. Coincidentally, my friend and neighbor Rick Learned and his sister happened to be in DK visiting relatives,
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The preparation for the TEDx talk is causing us to dredge through 17 years of material that relates to the project. But the story line is clear – a community came out to support big, impossible ideas and helped bring them to fruition.
Just one example is the beautifully written letter of recommendation
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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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We are looking forward to telling the Green Idea House story at the Dwell On Design Show in the LA convention Center on Saturday June 22nd.
We have always been huge architecture and design fans and have been going to the show for years. That is where we first met many
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There will be two opportunities to hear more about the Green Idea House – and a lot of other great topics this month:
April 16th (tomorrow!) in San Francisco- Robert will be speaking at the Pathways to 100% Renewable Energy Conference. There are still a few tickets left. For more information and
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We were so busy getting ready for the Green Idea House dedication that we didn’t have time to post the excellent piece Julie Sharp did to promote the event on the CBS evening news.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/05/hermosa-beach-family-to-open-eco-friendly-home-to-public/
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Well done Julie!
We were honored to have Ed Begley Jr, Dency Nelson and 10 other wonderful speakers at the Green Idea House dedication ceremony yesterday. http://greenideahouse.com/news/calendar/you-are-invited-join-ed-begley-jr-in-hermosa-beach-for-the-green-idea-house-dedication-ceremony/
Special thanks to Councilman Michael DiVirgilio for being a great M.C. and all the other enthusiastic participants who make it a very special morning. We’ll be posting
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