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development

A Couple of Videos from 100K House Groundbreaking

October 7, 2008

Last week Postgreen held its first ever groundbreaking event for the 100K House project. It wasn’t a big deal but we have a few videos of the event in case your interested.
Postgreen’s Groundbreaking Video

Phillypreneur’s 100K Groundbreaking Video

One last video is one from PlanPhilly.com that we are unable to embed. It can be found in the [...]

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Changing the Joneses

June 24, 2008

Keeping up with the Joneses is a saying that originated in a comic from the early 1900’s, or at least that’s what Wikipedia would have me believe (just confirmed by Toonopedia). The Joneses are the unseen neighbors in the comic and are often referred to with some degree of envy by the strip’s main characters. [...]

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An Excess of Cool

June 10, 2008

It has been hot in Philly. Not the kind of hot where you slip on some shorts and sandals and make your way into the long absent sun after a cold, cloudy winter (love that kind of hot). No, this is the kind of hot where you stay as still as possible for fear of [...]

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The Actual Cost: Making Sustainable Housing Tangible

April 21, 2008

I am a fairly regular reader of Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog and enjoy many of his occasional forays into saving the earth. Most of these ideas for a brave new world are fairly untenable (as Scott himself admits), but now and then he hits on something that just might make a difference. Today was such [...]

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Green Commercial Buildings Outperform Normal Buildings Financially by Far

April 1, 2008

Jetson Green reported late last week on a new report from CoStar that LEED and Energy Star buildings are financially outperforming similar buildings without these classifications in every category a building owner could care about. LEED buildings are selling for $171 more per square foot and renting for $11.24 more psf! That’s a big difference.
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100K House Project Updated Plans

January 8, 2008

In case you haven’t seen the new plans for the 100K House project here are a few links:

Flickr Slideshow
Project Page
100K House Blog Post

Our architect, Interface Studio Architects (ISA), is finalizing the last changes we made in the last design meeting and should have them ready soon. We are going to open up the ground floor [...]

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Extending the Imagination of Architecture in Philly

December 6, 2007

There is one company in Philly that most locals know have paved the way for modern and green development in downtown Philadelphia. The company is Onion Flats and I have not been to their website in a while so decided to catch up on their projects this morning. If you’ve somehow never heard of them [...]

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"The Remodern Movement" – Are we reaching a tipping point?

September 10, 2007

Greg La Vardera had a great post last week on his LamiDesign Modern House Plan Blog about whether or not modern home design is reaching the tipping point of breaking into the mainstream of American housing. Greg observes that over the past few years we have seen a surge in modern design publications like dwell, [...]

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