Our city runs an excellent program called Leadership Hermosa Beach which teaches an active civics lesson while overviewing the operations the city departments. The program also engages each of the students in a class project for the betterment of the city. Hats off to all the volunteers like Ryan and
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You Made It Happen. Carbon Neutral Got the Most Votes and Selected as a Top Priority in City Council’s Strategic Planning Session!
Despite dozens of other important items that were filtered through, we commend the City Council and Staff for making Carbon Neutrality a top priority. In the human experience, making
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Dear Friends of a Carbon Neutral Hermosa Beach,
If you care about:
improving the economy, ecology and health of the residents of Hermosa Beach
implementing the excellent sustainability plan the GTF created, Blue Zones and Livable Cities
Breathing cleaner air and swimming in cleaner water
Getting possible grant monies and donations for the city that
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Mira Costa High School Students Cameron David, Johanna Warshaw and Claire Hunt did a couple of excellent stories on the environment and Hermosa Beach’s commitment to Carbon Neutral. Those stories ran on the school’s Mustang Morning News and features then Mayor Jeff Duclos, award winning local activist, Dency Nelson and
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Writer Katrina Zawojski and Photographer Brad Jacobson did a great job capturing the essence of the Green Idea House in this week’s Easy Reader. In a beautifully done two page spread on pages 44 and 45, they hit the highlights that got us to net zero energy, zero carbon and
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Writer Katrina Zawojski and Photographer Brad Jacobson did a great job capturing the essence of the Green Idea House in this week’s Easy Reader. In a beautifully done two page spread on pages 44 and 45, they hit the highlights that got us to net zero energy, zero carbon and
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Pam Townsend, Senior Planner at the City of Hermosa Beach very kindly offered to bring a team of UCLA students and their Professor, Juan Matute, for a tour of the Green Idea House to get ideas for their Senior project. Their project is to assist the City with their Carbon
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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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