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Sustain Lane Features 100K House in 2008 Sustainable US City Rankings

September 24, 2008

  Sustain Lane is a people-powered web guide to sustainable living filled with how-tos, news and product reviews for sustainable living. Every year they publish their biggest report that ranks the 50 largest US cities on their sustainability practices. These rankings are a big deal and get picked up by the major guys in the [...]

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Guest Post on Jetson Green and Re:Construct Competition Entry

September 16, 2008

A few weeks ago we decided to answer Jetson Green’s challenge to enter the Re:Construct competition put on by Re:Vision. The competition is aimed at generating new types of structures and techniques to “reconstruct” the ideas and realities of sustainable building. I mentioned that our entry would be titled something to the effect of “Prefab [...]

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Art Matters Article on 100K

August 30, 2008

I had no idea we were in this art publication until today when Greg La Vardera (of LamiDesign Stock Homes, Materialicious and now Workalicious fame) Tweeted it to us and then forwarded to me in an email. If you are familiar with the current status of the project you will notice a lot of errors [...]

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100K House Featured on Flyp Media

August 26, 2008

Last month the team was interviewed by a relatively new media company from NYC, Flyp Media. They have an amazing site and are covering some pretty interesting content so we were honored to be included in this month’s online issue. They sent a videographer, photographer and journalist down to interview us and the result was [...]

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100K House Enters Re:Vision’s Re:Construct Competition

August 20, 2008

Last week one of our favorite green bloggers, Preston of Jetson Green, challenged his readers to join and win the Re:Construct contest being put on by Re:Vision. Late last week we decided to take Preston up on his challenge and threw in the $25 for the entry fee not really knowing too much about the [...]

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Dwell & AIA Contest Submission

June 30, 2008

Dwell and AIA have teamed up to sponsor a small “How Green Are You?” contest on Dwell’s website. We figured we might as well submit something since we already have a bunch of images and we now have Nic to write for us. The 250 word submission below took Nic all of about 15 minutes [...]

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WHYY Arts and Culture Piece on the 100K House

June 24, 2008

I just got an email from Brian at ISA yesterday that local, nonprofit news radio station WHYY interviewed them about the 100K project last Friday and aired it already yesterday. WHYY posted a short blurb on their website yesterday with a link to an mp3 of the short clip. WHYY MP3 Clip on the 100K [...]

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Magazine Love – GOOD Magazine Article on 100K House Project

April 7, 2008

I heard there was an article out in GOOD Magazine from a few readers that contacted me but didn’t see it until it was posted to their website today. Not sure if the issue is out in stores yet. Check out the full article here – http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Look/bargain_builders For all of you up to date on [...]

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Metropolis Article Live on the InterWeb

January 16, 2008

“From the Betsy Ross House to Your House” by Karrie Jacobs – the Metropolis article mentioning our project – is now posted on their website. Check out the full article and feel free to leave comments on their site. It doesn’t look like they get a lot of comments on their site so it would [...]

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Article on 100K House in Metropolis Magazine

January 10, 2008

It’s official. We have an article in the January issue of Metropolis magazine entitled, “From the Betsy Ross House to Your House – Philadelphia, a city of tiny row house, might be just the place to build a new version of the American dream:green and affordable.” The article is written by Karrie Jacobs and is [...]

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