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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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Only One Home Left in the Skinny Project

February 24, 2010

We are happy to announce that Lot 2 in the Skinny Project was put under contract yesterday, and we are all very excited to have a new owner as part of the Postgreen family!
This means that we only have one home left in this project. For all of you out there who are interested, and [...]

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Frequently Asked, Frequently Answered

February 17, 2010

This post is a little cry for help. No, not like the time I got caught pocketing Necco Wafers at the 7-Eleven. This is more of a straightforward cry for help. It is a request for the assistance from our ever insightful readers. Only this time, we are looking for questions instead of answers.
We have [...]

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How to Buy a Postgreen Home

February 9, 2010

Many people ask me – what do I need to do if I want to buy a Postgreen Home? As a licensed REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Preferred for the past six years, I have helped many people purchase homes, and I know it can be a daunting task. But with the right information and resources, [...]

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Calling All Renters: Ideas for a Postgreen Triplex

February 4, 2010

This one is for all of you out there who want the joy of living in a Postgreen Home without the responsibilities of home ownership. We are officially considering our first step into the rental world with a possible multi-family building right behind our 100k Project. It will be all the green, modern goodness you’ve [...]

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Analog Marketing and Our New Business Card Design

February 3, 2010

I decided recently that I would write an occasional post about our marketing strategy. It seems to be something that a good number of people are interested in, and I find that writing about a topic helps clarify my thinking and create new ideas. If you aren’t into this departure from our normal programming, I [...]

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Duplex Inspiration – Japanese 9 Tsubo House

January 23, 2010

Recently, we were approached by someone to design and build a small duplex on a tight infill house in Philadelphia. Without getting into too much detail, the lot is roughly 27′ wide by 20′ deep. Tight constraints to say the least. This footprint reminded us of one of our favorite Japanese small house designs – [...]

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Postgreen Site Disaster Recovery

December 30, 2009

The day before yesterday we discovered that our company site, postgreen.com, had developed some serious health problems. Pages were displaying incorrectly, plugins were malfunctioning and the code looked like a cat had walked across the keyboard at the beginning of each file. Our immediate attempts to fix this issue by upgrading Wordpress (our favorite web [...]

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I Imagine Buying Things: Cars vs Houses

December 16, 2009

I took a moment to imagine a strange scenario the other day. I sat back in a comfortable chair, stimulating beverage near at hand and tried to picture myself shopping for a new car. It was an exercise that taxed my imagination but also held an important lesson or two.
When looking for a car we [...]

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Skinny Project Sales Update

December 7, 2009

We are nearing the end of our pre-build organizational process (sounds important doesn’t it) and the Skinny Project ground breaking is fast approaching. Everyone over here at Postgreen is very excited about this project and the way in which it incorporates lessons from both the Passive House and LEED experiences. We also have seen some [...]

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