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Wool Insulation
Thursday, September 8th, 2011If I wasn’t a carpenter I’d probably be an insulation installer. I love a well insulated house, I feel like we could cut half of all our energy bills if everyone had a (properly applied) insulated home! Well America has finally joined the ranks of what the rest of the world had already figured out: [...]
Architect Barbie’s Dream House
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Well it took Barbie long enough to finally ditch that pink plastic palace! I’m so digging her new digs and it’s a green, pink palace: The house is the winning design of Ting Li and Maja Paklar in the AIA competition. It’s outfitted with all the green building features, making it the eco-friendliest on Malibu [...]
Four months and no vacation yet!
Thursday, August 4th, 2011It’s been a very busy four months!! Citybuild Academy 12 graduated and I immediately had to begin planning CBA 13. The Carpenter’s Union pulled out of the CityBuild program – I’m hopeful they will renew their support with us. It sounds “very political” on the reasons why they left, and as a carpenter myself it [...]
GE’s new fun tool for Contractors
Friday, March 11th, 2011I’ve been having so much fun playing with GE’s new tool for contractor’s. As a contractor and writer I get a lot of junk in the email and snail mail, so it takes something really interesting to get me to stop and really pay attention to what you are trying to sell. GE sent a [...]
Green Festival
Monday, November 1st, 2010The Green Festival makes its last stop of the year here in San Francisco this coming weekend – November 6-7. This is different than West Coast Green as it focuses on green living, WCG is more about green building. I hope to see you there!
Cool It
Sunday, October 31st, 2010First there was Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth. It scared some of us and at least opened the eyes of others. Now here’s another movie on climate change. Same topic, just a different discussion. I’m excited to see it, when it opens on November 12, 2010. I’m one of the few people who truly [...]
Agile Energy, Inc. Named GoingGreen Silicon Valley Top 100 Winner
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Glen Davis is a former client of mine, so I’m really happy to share this email I received from him! Congratulations! Agile Energy, Inc. Named GoingGreen Silicon Valley Top 100 Winner Recognized for creating new opportunities in green technology San Bruno, CA – October 19, 2010 – Agile Energy, Inc., a developer of utility-scale solar [...]
SFHDC
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Here are some before and after photos of our latest project we finished last month. Believe it or not I’m still in the process of getting my final inspections completed….such is construction ! This is a commercial project. The San Francisco Housing Development Corporation expanded their offices to the next door space, which will house [...]
Healthy Building News: Fly Ash
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Since we are on the topic of concrete (see post below), I found this article on fly ash in building products really interesting. A few months ago at an NaSBAp class a student had asked me about this very topic. I hadn’t heard much about it until now: AN INSIDE LOOK AT EMERGING MARKET AND [...]
National Sustainable Building Advisor Program
Sunday, September 26th, 2010It’s not too late to sign up for the next class in the National Sustainable Building Advisor Program. Classes begin on October 15, 2010 at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco. Some of our past graduates and instructors will also be presenting at West Coast Green.
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