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Katie Wisniewski

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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S is for Suburban, Sol Austin, and Sustainable

August 19, 2010

Suburbia. Lets be honest, it’s kind of a dirty word. We use the word ‘development’ because we live in fear of the word ‘suburbia’.But, Im going to say what everyone is thinking: most developments are suburban. And that’s okay. So, come out of the closet, be proud of the suburban dweller you are. You no longer [...]

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Village Homes: Sustainability, Hobbits and Jane Fonda

August 11, 2010

This post marks the first in a series about housing developments that we think you might find interesting. For the inaugural post I’ve chosen to write about Village Homes in Davis California, a place that many consider to be the grand-daddy of modern sustainable developments. It’s always a good idea to begin with a classic, [...]

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Mary Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?

July 1, 2010

With silver bells and cockle shells? Hopefully not if you live in Philadelphia. First of all ‘silver bells’ is now classified as an invasive species and cockle shells are poisonous if ingested. So, Mary had things kind of wrong. It’s important to know what you’re planting and to understand the conditions of where it is [...]

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Meet Your Shiny New Intern, Katie Wisniewski

June 17, 2010

Katie is one of our shiny new interns and is deserving of both your attention and your response. I’ll let her say the rest . . . My name is Katie, and I’m one of two new Postgreen summer interns. My first meeting with Postgreen was, well, clandestine. It came in the form of Amtrak’s little [...]

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