San Francisco’s Union Square may be noted for it’s abundance of shopping, hotels, tourist joints and even outside movies but a Green Home? Don’t call your Green Real Estate agent quite yet. The temporary green home occupied the prime real estate last week as part of the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living […]
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Living Green Exhibit - 15 City Tour
Published by Keith March 28th, 2008 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building and San Francisco. 0 CommentsGreen Home Requirement in San Mateo County
Published by Keith February 15th, 2008 in Eco Homes, Green Condos, Green Savings, LEED-NC, No VOC Paint and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsHere in the Bay Area, it’s not just Berkeley who’s showing Green Big Brother mentality. Green home building will be required from all new homes built in the unincorporated region of San Mateo County. The county supes this week voted to add sweeping green regulations to green construction requirements to take effect later this […]
Eco Ego in the Sunset Idea House
Published by Keith November 6th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, Photovoltaic Panels, Real Estate, San Francisco, Solar panels, Water Recapture System and condos. 1 CommentIn a city known for its architecture and now Green building, the Sunset Idea House hasn’t stirred up so many “ideas” since the Transamerica Pyramid made its way into the SF skyline. We’re all about tossing the Green spotlight on Green building but we had to step back from this one before going on a […]
The not so Green Sunset Idea House TIC
Published by Keith October 8th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Green Building, Green Real Estate, Health, Photovoltaic Panels, Real Estate, San Francisco, Solar panels and Water Recapture System. 1 CommentWhile everyone’s all abuzz about the Sunset Idea House, we thought that we would comment on the Greenness of the attached TIC. True the bargain priced $1,089,000 two-bedroom TIC has received a lot of interest because of the Mission location, and its Green attributes. Sure, the new owner will undoubtedly pay close to nothing to […]
Green Miracle in SF
Published by Keith September 20th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building, Green Real Estate, Real Estate, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 0 CommentsTo us or anyone living in San Francisco it almost seemed like a miracle. There it was: a one bedroom, new construction home with a great location right across from city hall with a $249,000 price tag. Did we mention that it’s Green? Michelle Kaufman’s fab Green pre-fab with a name that sounds like a […]
Green Building Does Not Cost More
Published by Keith August 20th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Green Building, Green Real Estate, LEED-NC, Money, Real Estate, San Francisco and condos. 0 CommentsAs the condos continue to rise in mini Manhattan, otherwise known as South Beach in San Francisco, it continues to amaze and disgust us why developers and builders aren’t building LEED certified or the equivalent. Oh right, it costs more to build Green.
That retort just won’t cut it anymore according to Oakland based KEMA Green […]
Zero Energy Home for West Coast Green
Published by Keith August 3rd, 2007 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building, San Francisco, Solar panels, Water Recapture System and West Coast Green. 0 CommentsIt won’t solve the housing problem here in the City but when West Coast Green occurs next month attendees will get a chance to tour a “zero energy” Green home right smack in the Civic Center across from City Hall. Yes, it’s a prefabricated house but not that nasty “Prefab” often associated with temporary replacement […]
PCBC - Do You Have That in Green?
Published by Keith May 30th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building and San Francisco. 0 CommentsWith so many builders in town for the PCBC (Pacific Coast Builder Conference) it made our little Green hearts go pitter patter to see a sizeable gathering for the Builder-to-Builder Green Summit in a day long Tuesday pre-conference. Maybe builders do care about Green building or at least their future bottom lines but with a […]
Solar House in the Richmond
Published by Keith January 30th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Green Building, Green Real Estate, Photovoltaic Panels, Real Estate and San Francisco. 0 CommentsIt’s not exactly the Greenest house in SF but the recently listed, and now pending, house at 580 Funston has a decent two kilowatt photovoltaic system, enough to cut the PG&E bill to a nub even in the foggy Richmond. Too bad the real estate agent buried the solar aspect as the second to the […]
Green Thinking at Winter Festival
Published by Keith January 26th, 2007 in Arterra, Eco Homes, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, Real Estate, San Francisco and condos. 0 CommentsMost of the people wandering around San Francisco’s Winter Market appeared only to be concerned with fashion, design and colors of the newest fabrics, furniture and living accessories but for a couple hours SF Green architects David Baker and Anne Fougeron, Green entrepreneur Jordan Harris, and interior designer Jennifer Gadiel discussed the Green aspect of […]