Posts Tagged ‘environmental’

Greywater gets Clearer
by Robert Fortunato on October 21st, 2010 No Comments »

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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Digging in to the Project
by Robert Fortunato on October 14th, 2010 No Comments »

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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CBS News and Local Press Cover the Groundbreaking Ceremony of GIH!
by Robert Fortunato on October 7th, 2010 1 Comment »

The groundbreaking ceremony of the Green Idea House was covered by CBS news and the local press and can be seen at the following links:
CBS News a 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfsYUiaWyc
CBS News at 11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt660JF3R1A
Easy Reader:
http://www.easyreadernews.com/2010/10/news/hermosa-beach/ground-broken-innovative-house
The Daily Breeze”
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_16260936
Hermosa Beach Patch:
http://hermosabeach.patch.com/articles/green-idea-house-is-now-shovel-ready

Breaking New Ground with All of You!
by Robert Fortunato on October 7th, 2010 No Comments »

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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Denmark Makes its Mark
by Robert Fortunato on October 1st, 2010 2 Comments »

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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You are Invited to the Ground Breaking Ceremony!
by Robert Fortunato on September 24th, 2010 No Comments »

You are invited to the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Green Idea House on Tuesday, October 5th, 8:45 am at 1556 Prospect Avenue, Hermosa Beach.
The ceremony will be done by 9:30 am; but information about the Green Idea House and the Southern California Edison Mobile Energy Unit (MEU) and demonstration
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First Green Idea City Leadership Forum a Huge Success
by Robert Fortunato on September 16th, 2010 No Comments »

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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HUGE GARAGE SALE AND SUCCULENT SALE
by Robert Fortunato on September 1st, 2010 No Comments »

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

Angeleno: The race is on to become LA’s most enviro-advanced neighborhood:
by Robert Fortunato on August 4th, 2010 No Comments »

The Green Idea House is mentioned on pg 44 of Angelino Magazine’s August issue!

Botanical Garden Gets the Green
by Robert Fortunato on July 4th, 2010 No Comments »

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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