If San Franciscans and out-of-towners didn’t get enough Green Home examples at the just concluded West Coast Green then yesterday’s (Sept. 23) Build It Green Tour would have sent them completely over the Green ledge. The modest seven home tour offered up a smorgasbord of Green homes, condo, new construction and remodels with a Green […]
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Build It Green Home Tour San Francisco 2007
Published by Keith September 24th, 2007 in Eco Hotels, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, Green Savings, Real Estate, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 1 CommentOrganic Architect Freed Gets Fiesty
Published by Keith September 21st, 2007 in Environment, Green Building, Health, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 1 CommentIt’s not like Organic Architect Eric Corey Freed needs more publicity but we feel obligated to dole out some props. As one of the West Coast Green noted speakers his “An extremely unusual look at Green building” certainly caused a stir during day one. We knew that we were in for a Freed special when […]
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 […]
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 […]
Where do we Sleep now?
Published by Keith September 13th, 2006 in Eco Hotels, Environment, Golden Gate Park, Green Building, Green Hotels, LEED-NC, Orchard Garden Hotel, Photovoltaic Panels, San Francisco, Solar panels and West Coast Green. 0 CommentsWe can’t check in yet but we’re already giddy to sleep in one of the 86 rooms in the USA’s first LEED-NC certified hotel. San Francisco’s own Orchard Garden Hotel which represents the first in what will hopefully be a long line of green hotels will open in October. Green Roof Inns anyone?
Originally scheduled to […]