We are honored to recently receive one of the most rigorous building certifications available. The Zero Energy Certification from the International Living Futures Institute’s Living Buildings Challenge is one of the few that uses actual building data to measure performance – and we had six years’ worth of data for
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California State Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi will be presenting an Environmental Stewardship Award to the Fortunato family for work on their Green Idea House. The award is celebrating five years of operating and demonstrating an affordable, net zero energy, zero carbon case study house. An exterior tour will follow the
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Many of you wanted to know what Buzzfeed was filming at our Green Idea House. They wanted to shoot a short film in an affordable, net positive energy, zero carbon, all electric “House of the Future”.
Monica and I had fun working with them. The cast and crew experienced Hermosa Beach
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Want to see how Affordable, Net Zero Energy/Zero Carbon is Possible Today? Join us at the Dwell Show this Saturday the 25th at 2:30 – 3:30pm.
We will again be presenting at the Dwell Show by invitation of the USGBC-LA. We appreciate the opportunity and look forward to seeing you there.
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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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It is an honor to again be speaking at the MGBCE this Thursday, April 21st. This is one of my favorite events because I learned so much about sustainable building practices and met so many great people over the past 10 years.
It is truly one of the best events
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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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We satisfied our speed addiction and green voyeurism this week by test driving the 691hp Tesla Model S P85D. It is the fastest production car, period. Going from 0 – 60 in 3.1 seconds in that car was the smoothest g-force rush we had ever experienced.
The P85D is beautifully executed,
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150 students from the Environmental Charter High School came for a tour of the Green Idea House this week. ECHS has made this tour part of their curriculum and the 9th grader’s semester project. It is always great to see the student’s eyes light up as they start to understand:
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