It was a pleasure presenting the Green Idea House story with John Morton from Southern California Edison at the Municipal Green Building Conference yesterday.
What we learned and all the great people we met at the conference in previous years made our project possible. It felt good to return the favor.
It was an honor speaking about the Green Idea House on Earth Day at the very august Los Angeles City Hall. The organizers did an excellent job with the program (see attached) and it was a pleasure having friends and supporters of the project like Dency Nelson, Professor Marcella Oliva, Lillian
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Robert had the opportunity to speak about the Green Idea House at the 100% Renewable Energy Conference in San Francisco this week. His fellow speakers were extraordinary and included San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee. Mayor Lee reaffirmed that his city is on track to be zero waste AND 100% renewable
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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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Many thanks to Chelsea Sektnan for the excellent article in this week’s Easy Reader!
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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Dear Friends of the Green Idea House:
We have appreciated your friendship and support as we planned, built and tested the Green Idea House. The success we have achieved would have been impossible without you, our community of friends and supporters. Together we proved that one family can affordably remodel a
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It was an honor to have the Green Idea House on the prestigious Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour. Debbie Felt, the Sandpipers President, just let us know that more than 2,500 people went on the tours and they raised over $84,000 for local charities. Go Sandpipers! http://sandpipers.org/category/holiday-homes-tour/
It was a win-win because
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We just got back in town to find our good friend and passionate environmental advocate, Dency Nelson, on the front page of Sunday’s Los Angeles Times!
We all know Dency as the die hard environmentalist who is often the first to speak and last one in the audience at City Council
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