Some of you may have noticed us driving a funny little car lately (see photo). It is a fully electric local use vehicle (LUV) and was lent to us by one of our partners, the South Bay Environmental Services Center. You can find out more about the benefits of these
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Yesterday about 20 Southern California Edison Energy Efficiency Interns came to the GIH for a construction site tour. They were very interested and asked great questions. Doug Morino and Robert Casillas from the Daily Breeze also joined the group and got their piece published in today’s paper: http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_18457632
Watching Bill McDonough’s expanded version of his TED talk at the Dwell conference Friday night was extraordinary. He is one of the key sources of inspiration for the Green Idea House.
Ed took the stage Sunday afternoon with a vigor and clarity that was masked in the nature of his “living
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Read about it in Eric Michael Stitt’s Beach Reporter article published this week.
Many thanks to the Easy Reader reporter Rebecca Zisser for a great article. During the tour she was very engaged, asked great questions and ultimately turned in a wonderful report. Thank you for your interest in spreading the word.
P.S. One small correction: “Fortunato first became interested in green technology
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Eric Michael Stitt very kindly marked our first big milestone: Owners save 97.5 percent of razed home
April 1, 2011 was the start of the Wyland Clean Water Pledge. Mayors across Southern California are squaring off to see whose city is the greenest. Our Mayor, Pete Tucker, has our support on this initiative: www.mywaterpledge.com
Everyone knows that burning natural gas is less harmful than other fossil fuels, but the process of shale gas drilling is certainly not natural and certainly not less harmful. Watch this 60 minutes piece to understand how the push to extract it from the ground is contaminating drinking water and
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Hermosa Beach is hosting an event on Jan 26th. Find one near you. http://www.sbesc.com/programs/residential
Our friend Ewen, from Scotland, wanted to know if we were going to pack up our “tree” (see Christmas Rocks! post), put it in the attic and pull it out again next year. We had other plans for it…
Our High Water post explained why we want to keep the storm
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Our son Carter is very happy to see his old friend from last year (see photo), thanks to Scotty Claus and his elves at The Living Christmas Company. This is an amazing group that helps cut carbon – not trees. Their innovative business makes it easy to support a forest.
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We are tackling the site work on our project while we wait for our plan set revisions from the city to go back through our engineers and draftsman. The site work includes undergrounding the utilities. By code we have to underground the electrical, cable and phone to
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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
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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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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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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Despite budgetary concerns and the threat of a $700 million lawsuit against the city by MacPherson Oil, the Hermosa Beach City Council showed their commitment to being the first carbon neutral city in Los Angeles County last night when they unanimously voted to waive all permit and plan check fees
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The GreenPoint Rated label is the mark of quality for green home construction. It is a recognizable, independent seal of approval that verifies a home has been built or remodeled according to proven green standards. To make sure that every GreenPoint Rated home is healthy and efficient from the inside
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We started the project with a system of interdependent objectives that acts as a map and a compass. No project is perfect and this one won’t be either; but being mindful of these objectives keeps us on track when making decisions. We have found that it is particularly
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Mayor Michael DiVirgilio wrote an excellent Op Ed piece on the City of Hermosa Beach’s commitment to go carbon neutral. Why Hermosa Beach is going carbon neutral
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Mediterranean Solar Electric Systems is glad to be a partner in the Green Idea House Project as the designer and installer of the solar electric system.
Mediterranean has been installing Residential & Commercial Solar Electric, Solar Hot Water, and Solar Pool Heating Systems in Southern California since the
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Net zero energy means harvesting as much energy as you use on an annualized basis. It is our key objective because there a lot of prescriptive standards our there, but most are not performance based. Net zero energy gives us a verifiable target that tells us how the building
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Zero carbon is another key benchmark because fine black soot particles are the residue of burning carbon. We don’t know if you have the same particles that quickly accumulate where you live, but it is known to cause cancer, lung and heart disease. The first two photos are
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HermosaBeachPatch, a new local news organization backed by AOL did a couple of stories of how our project is unfolding and influencing the City of Hermosa Beach to become carbon neutral.
“Green Idea” Grows in Hermosa Beach
Plan Aims to Turn Hermosa Beach Into Area’s First Carbon Neutral City
October 23, 2009 Green Idea House was discussed in detail in the Beach Reporter Article.
