Here is the second video in our 100K Walking Series. This one includes the wife (aka “The Money”) accompanying me to one of our favorite watering holes, the Memphis Taproom. We are trying out Viddler today which is a local Philly company trying to offer better service than YouTube. We think they are doing a pretty good job and will most likely start using them as our default player. You can even post video comments on any post using Viddler if you are so inclined.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/postgreen/videos/4/

Nic also wanted me to mention that we have an open invitation for any musicians out there to submit music for us to use in this or any other video. We are using copyrighted music now and it’s probably only a matter of time until we get sued, so we could be helping each other out. We’ll promote your music and you keep us from huge legal fees. This is what we refer to as a win-win.

Don’t forget to check out our 100K House Walks Google Map as well with all of our favorite locations.

We know that everyone reading is probably familiar with the project details by now, but may not be familiar with the neighborhood that it is taking place in. All members of our team work in this neighborhood and most also live here. We all love it for a variety of reasons but not everyone will share our enthusiasm without knowing a bit more about it. For this reason we have put together a series of posts and videos to familiarize everyone with the attractions surrounding the 100K House project.

To kick things off, we performed a “Walk Score” using the google mashup available at walkscore.com.  This site takes an address that you input and gives you a walk score based on a 100 point scale with 100 being the most walkable neighborhood possible. It takes into account things like grocery stores, restaurants, schools and other amenities that are all within walking distance of the source address. It’s a pretty cool tool that actually represent the linkages and location section of the LEED for Homes guideline pretty well.

So how’d we do? We scored a 74 out of 100 for a rating of “Very Walkable” as seen in the image below. This is pretty good. We felt like we should’ve done a bit better due to the proximity of the nearest train stop that takes one directly into Center City Philadelphia, but for some reason public transportation is not taken into consideration. Proximity to public transportation is a big factor for both LEED and most residents that have migrated to this neighborhood, so we feel it is worth mentioning again.

To take the walkable conept a bit further, we went ahead and created a Google Map entitled, “100K House Walks Fishtown.” This map contains all of our favorite destinations in the area that are walkable from the 100K House site. We have tried to create our own descriptions of each location along with links to their websites and contact info if available. This map is also the inspiration for our Walking Series of videos that will continue to come out. Those routes that we highlight in the videos will be shown and linked to from this Google Map as well. We hope this helps some of you out there become a bit more familiar with the neighborhood that have not had the pleasure of visiting.

While brainstorming ways to promote the upcoming sale of the 120K House, Nic and I have been using every excuse to use our new video camera. We realize that not everyone is familiar with the lovely neighborhood of Fishtown and East Kensington that we live in, so we thought we would create a series of videos showcasing some of our favorite spots in the neighborhood that are all withing walking distance of the 100K House project.

I am still working on a Google Map that will show all of these locations along with descriptions, links and walking distances from the 100K House project. I wanted to post that first, but Nic beat me with his first videos, so you may see a few of them before the post summarizing the wonderful location and neighborhood that the 100K House project is in. We hope you enjoy them.

One last note. I messed up the calculation on the steps in the video and it should read 367 rather than 3,333 at the end of the video. My bad. We’ll try to fix this later.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VpDBDNua4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VpDBDNua4