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Zero Energy Design Energy Modeling – Press Release

May 9, 2008

Philadelphia and Boston Groups Seek to Build the Most Energy Efficient Green Home Possible for $100,000
Postgreen has contracted ZeroEnergy Design to perform advanced energy modeling and consulting on the 100K House project in order to design the most energy efficient home possible on a small budget of $100,000 in the Delaware Valley region of the [...]

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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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PhillyCarShare posts planet saving numbers!

November 12, 2007

My wife an I have been very satisfied PhillyCarShare members for over three years. It’s always been convenient and originally kept us from needing a second car, and recently has enabled us to eliminate car ownership from our lives completely. We’ve noticed some changes in our transportation habits since joining including taking public transportation more [...]

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Article on Green Home Stores

September 27, 2007

Here is the first article I’ve seen on the new green home stores I wrote about in this post a few weeks ago. It gives a bit more background on the founders.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15528

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Green Home Stores in Philadelphia

September 13, 2007

There has been lot of talk about Philadelphia becoming a greener city lately to catch up with the likes of Chicago and NYC. One good sign of late was the opening of three new environmental home stores in the Philadelphia area. Below is a brief description of each in no particular order and I plan [...]

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