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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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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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 was great celebrating by speaking at the MGBCE and by judging the Grades of Green Trash Free Lunch Challenge. The MGBCE was a excellent event and my talk was packed full of interesting and interested people – very fun.
Our Grades of Green Group went to see three finalist schools
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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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Happy Holidays! We started a new tradition this year.
We wanted to do something that is simpler, less stressful, that gives us more to celebrate. Tens of millions of trees are cut down every year and all the waste, pollution and deforestation that entails made us think.
We love what the Living
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Robert was honored to be asked to do a TEDx talk on the Green Idea House tomorrow, Friday September 12th. You can still get tickets at: http://tedxredondobeach.com/events/upcomingevents and the promo code RUHSLimits will get you $5 off the ticket price.
The theme “Beyond Limits” is perfect. It gives us the opportunity to share the
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Robert was honored to be asked to do a TEDx talk on the Green Idea House on Friday September 12th. The theme “Beyond Limits” is perfect. It gives us the opportunity to share the surprising untold backstory of how a community came together to go beyond limits and accomplish what
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