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100k Signing Off

March 14, 2011

As most of you know, this blog was originally created to document the 100k House Project in all it’s intricate details. Over the course of that project we covered design, product research, mechanical systems, zoning process and much, much more. We tried to live up to our goal of transparency as much as possible and [...]

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We Are Back

August 11, 2010

You may or may not have noticed that we haven’t posted in a while. We had some serious WordPress database issues that were well beyond my ability to fix. Fortunately the great support team at Hosting.com was there to bail us out. I would also like to thank all of those fellow Twitter users who [...]

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Skinny Project Update: Foundations Complete

April 5, 2010

This is just a brief update of the action over at the Skinny Project. If you want more detailed info, you’ll have to follow our new Postgreen Homes Blog. Over there we are giving step by step construction updates complete with pictures, video and occasional witty asides. The foundations are now completely finished at the [...]

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New Postgreen Homes Blog

March 23, 2010

I’m imagine most of you are familiar with our Postgreen Homes customization tool by now. For those few that aren’t, it is an online tool that allows folks to customize one of our homes much as one might customize a computer or car online. You can choose things like flooring, counters, fixtures and much more. [...]

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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 [...]

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Postgreen Homes Flooring Changes

January 19, 2010

The Postgreen Homes site updates continue as we move into 2010 and closer to groundbreaking on the Skinny Project. The biggest of these is probably the change we have made to our flooring options. As many of you know we were using sheet products on our floor. We would cut sheets of OSB, bamboo plywood [...]

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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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Updates to PostgreenHomes.com – Kitchen Appliances

December 15, 2009

We are in the midst of some overhauls to the Postgreen Homes website which will continue over the next couple weeks. These changes are motivated by budget concerns, warranty issues, new product finds, basic improvements and other lessons of the past months. This is just the first entry in what will be an ongoing series [...]

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Video Walkthrough of Our Home Customization Tool

August 26, 2009

Many of you have already taken the opportunity to play around with our new Postgreen Homes website. We hope it has been a rewarding and entertaining experience that you are anxious to share with all of your family, friends and passing acquaintances. OK, that might be a bit much but hopefully you at least mildly [...]

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Customizable Postgreen Homes On Our New Site

August 5, 2009

Many of you have likely heard the news already, but I feel an occasion this momentous (to us) deserves an official launch post. Postgreen Homes’ new website has finally been released into the world and with it comes the ability to customize our homes. After months of development, content writing, graphic creation, testing, and whining [...]

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