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November 2008

Sonos – Affordable Whole House Audio System

November 29, 2008

I am a bit of an audiophile, so when we started thinking about developing our own homes, integrated A/V equipment naturally popped into my head as something to offer in our homes. The problem is that when your company’s first project is focusing on affordable and green homes, higher-end options like whole-house audio tend to [...]

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SIPS Week Teaser Trailer Video

November 26, 2008

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here at Postgreen with the attendance of Greenbuild ’08 and trying to juggle finishing our first project while starting the second. Unfortunately, Nic has not had time to put the full SIPs Week video footage together. He has however, given us a quick trailer of what is to [...]

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Price Reduced Bath Plumbing Fixtures in 100K House – Delta Arzo

November 26, 2008

In the comments of our recent post on the modern and affordable plumbing fixtures for the 100K House, I mentioned that we were looking at possible cost reductions.  Recently,”the Money” has gotten involved in helping us spec out our final finishes list. She made an executive decision after a substantial amount of research to switch [...]

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Daily Construction Images of 100K House Project to Date

November 21, 2008

Things got a little more exciting the past two weeks in our Daily 100K Construction photos. This set includes a picture taken every day of construction from the same spots in front, back and to the side of the 100K House construction site. With the SIPs going up in the past two weeks, the set [...]

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100K House SIPs Installation Flickr Photo Set

November 19, 2008

While we are gone, we thought we would give everyone a chance to catch up on our latest construction photos. The SIPs Install photo set is part of our 100K House Construction Photos collection on Flickr. We tried to take a picture from a couple of different angles after each panel went up on the [...]

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The Hops Shortage and Eating Locally

November 18, 2008

I was reading through my current issue of Beer Advocate Magazine (yes, I was an inaugural subscriber), and I came upon an article that seemed to echo some of the things we have been discussing, particularly some of the comments on my post about the economy. Now, in order to understand the gist of this [...]

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Postgreen is Headed to Greenbuild ’08 Expo & Conference

November 17, 2008

Tomorrow the Nic and I will be headed to this year’s Greenbuild conference and expo. This is the only must attend green building event on our calender that we told ourselves we would go to no matter how poor we were. To cut costs we will be taking the Bolt Bus ($110 round trip total [...]

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Our Friend the Economy

November 13, 2008

Okay, nobody likes the economy right now. The economy is like the kid in the 2nd grade who ate a lot of paste and bit people. It is like Rudolph, excluded from the reindeer games because of an excess of red. I hear people curse it everyday and, honestly, I can understand the feeling. Things [...]

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YouTube Video Shows Us How To Install SIPs

November 13, 2008

Overall the SIPs install has been going very well considering no one involved has ever seen or handled a SIP before in their life. The crew is probably on pace to beat traditional framing by a few days and we will have the benefit of having the insulation complete at the end of our process. [...]

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New ISA Project – Fishtown Zoning Meeting TONIGHT

November 12, 2008

This post is for locals in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia near where we are building. Our architects, Interface Studio Architects (ISA), are presenting a new proposed project to the neighborhood for another developer buddy of ours in the area. It’s really cool and we need all the local support we can get to help [...]

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