From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Announcing the Avant Garage Project

September 25, 2010

The Avant Garage project is the new, oddly named Postgreen Homes project consisting of four homes in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. We are happy to announce that all four homes are now officially available to customize and buy. Everyone at Postgreen is very excited about this project as it is introducing a new model [...]

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High Performance Houses for a High Performance World

September 21, 2010

An odd image dug it’s way out of my mind the other day. I pictured a person sitting in their suburban track home flipping the channels on the latest hi-def, flat screen TV. I imagined them telling me all the amazing television performance specs as hundreds of channels whisked by at the speed of an [...]

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Our New Social Media Intern Introduces Herself

September 15, 2010

Alex is our new social media intern, and as with all Postgreen Interns, she will be making occasional blog appearances. Somehow between school and appearances at Lincoln Center (seriously, she is singing there sometime soon), she has found time to help us keep our ever growing noise machine organized and active. I’ll let her say [...]

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Energy Star Home – The Hybrid Construction Way

September 8, 2010

Over 1 million Energy Star Homes have been built to date in the US. Compare this to just over 6,500 LEED Certified homes and probably less than 20 Passive House Certified homes in the US. While Energy Star is much less stringent than the latter certifications, it is easy to see which standard the bigger [...]

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Making Modular

September 1, 2010

You know we love cross-promotion, and we know we love cross-promotion. So, leaving all shame behind, this post is on a wholly different kind of development, one that just happens to be designed by our friends over at ISA. The Modules is an apartment complex built right off of Temple’s Campus, and it is the [...]

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