From the monthly archives:

March 2010

BIA Tour of Postgreen Homes

March 30, 2010

The Building Industry Association of Philadelphia is offering a tour of six green projects in Fishtown including three of ours. On this tour you will get to see The Ice House and a couple “before and after” homes from Green Revolution Realty. You will also get a chance to check out our original 100k project, [...]

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Construction Waste Management Recap

March 26, 2010

I’m not sure how we’ve forgotten to post on the Construction Waste Management done for LEED for Homes on the 100K House project? Let’s do a little recap here for all those interested. First we will briefly go over the LEED requirements and credits, and then we’ll take a look at the methods we used [...]

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New Postgreen Homes Blog

March 23, 2010

I’m imagine most of you are familiar with our Postgreen Homes customization tool by now. For those few that aren’t, it is an online tool that allows folks to customize one of our homes much as one might customize a computer or car online. You can choose things like flooring, counters, fixtures and much more. [...]

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Our Top 10 Priorities When Building a Green Home on a Budget

March 22, 2010

You may have heard of the phrase “money is no object.” It is apparently a combination of words reserved for people who also own private islands and have buildings named after them. It is also occasionally thrown around by politicians when they want to protect democracy or get reelected. We have never actually heard it [...]

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Stumping for Votes: JDR Blogger Awards

March 12, 2010

We haven’t lost a web popularity contest in a few weeks so we thought we would take this golden opportunity. Jackson Design and Remodeling has chosen us as one of their favorite “Construction Business” blogs and pitted us against our fellow internet ramblers. You (and a couple hundred of you friends) could be a big [...]

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Tezuka Architects Japanese Design Inspiration

March 11, 2010

I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Takaharu Tezuka of Tezuka Architects give a lecture at UPenn recently. Tezuka is one of my favorite Japanese firms that has been producing amazing homes for about two decades and is getting into some interesting larger commercial commissions as they have grown in the past 5-10 years. If [...]

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Awesometown Community Informational Meeting

March 8, 2010

Many of you have heard of our collaborative project with the NKCDC that, for reasons understood only by those who can truly fathom the Postgreen-team mind, has been dubbed Awesometown. In fact, many of you have probably even customized a home in the project over at the Postgreen Homes site. This post is, unfortunately, not [...]

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Skinny Project: The Ground is Broken

March 3, 2010

Despite the rainy cold weather we have started digging for the Skinny Project foundations. Hopefully this will set us up to make some real progress over the days of nice weather that Mother Nature has kindly scheduled for us. If all goes well we should have our footers poured by Friday and be ready to [...]

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