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Nic Darling

A Rational Response to Climate Change?

December 2, 2010

Those in a position to fully understand and appreciate the looming consequences of our planet abuse have reached the point where politically motivated equivocation is waning. The tempered suggestions of carbon caps and higher efficiency standards are giving way to more drastic and likely more honest suggestions. The fact that those suggestions can and will [...]

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100k House Wins LEED for Homes Project of the Year

November 22, 2010

We just got back from Greenbuild in Chicago and are a little more tired than expected. That is probably because we had to lug this sweet piece of hardware back with us . . . That’s right, the 100k Project actually won the USGBC’s national award for LEED for Homes Project of the Year. We [...]

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Marketing Without Shame

November 16, 2010

Every now and then I like to write a quick post about some of the ways in which we market our homes. I know this kind of article is not for everyone, but I hope at least a few of you like them. Those that don’t are free to sit this one out and wait [...]

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Feel Good Returns: A New Postgreen Long-Term Investment Model

November 5, 2010

If you have any long terms savings or investments including stock, IRAs, annuities, etc., than this post is for you. In fact, if you think you might someday have some sort of long term investment plan than you will probably be interested. Heck, even the broke and opinionated will probably enjoy this discussion, so why [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Small: Marketing Fewer Square Feet in the Land of More

October 22, 2010

We have talked before about the unreasonable growth in American home sizes even as the average household size continues to decrease. We have also spoken about the need to understand houses based on performance rather than square footage. Often these conversations turn toward educating potential home buyers. Ideas like understandable metrics and car-style performance labeling [...]

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The View from the Future Avant Garage Roof Decks

October 14, 2010

The whole post and all the related information is up on the Postgreen Homes blog, but I thought the video also deserved a showing here. Take a look as we jack my poor self up 35 feet in a tiny bucket to get shots of the view from the future roof deck and green roof [...]

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Avant Garage Updates Over at Postgreen Homes

October 11, 2010

As most of you know by now, we have moved our project specific coverage over to the Postgreen Homes Blog, but since change is a difficult thing, I will occasionally post some small updates with similar info here. Hopefully, everyone will soon subscribe to the PGH Blog for this kind of news, but until then [...]

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Urban Garages: Car Closets in the City

October 7, 2010

Everyone who has read this blog knows I have a certain anti-car bent. It’s not that I am adamantly against the automobile itself. In fact, I actually enjoy driving. One of my favorite jobs I ever had was delivering pizzas. However, I do believe that far too much of our infrastructure is designed for and [...]

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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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