Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Washington Affordable Housing Conference in Spokane. I was so impressed with the people that attended this conference and the amazing job these people are doing in providing homes for the homeless, handicapped and people who cannot affordable much of the housing available today. […]
Day at Serenbe in Atlanta
While attending the NAREE conference in Atlanta, our group was treated to a visit to Serenbe – an extremely environmentally friendly community close to the center of Atlanta. Lunch on the porch of their beautiful restaurant was fantastic and we all left the community more mellow than when we arrived. As a result of that […]
Won the Robert Bruss Gold Book Award by the National Association Of Real Estate Editors
In Atlanta last week I received this award which was such an honor.
Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home
Prefabrication offers a simple path to the green home of your dreams, and in her latest book, Prefabulous author Sheri Koones highlights the many ways of using prefabrication to create almost-off-the-grid homes—houses that are not only environmentally friendly but often operate at nearly zero annual energy cost. Taking energy from the grid when necessary and […]
Blog on AOL Real Estate
Check out my recent blog on AOL Real Estate at http://aol.it/GJK7Eh
Check out Sarah Susanka’s new Showhouse
For anyone in the Libertyville Il area, you should check out my friend Sarah’s new Showhouse. Sarah is a top notch architect – her house is worth seeing – it will definitely be a treat. Its open every weekend until May 20th, 2012 (Saturday 9-4 and Sunday 1-4.) You can read more about it in […]
An evening with Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton is such a special person and actress. Her warmth and “realness” comes through in everything she does. Monday night I had the privilege of attending an event at the New York Public Library at which Ms. Keaton read from her new book, Then Again and answered a multiple of questions about herself and […]
NAREE Conference in San Antonio
Last week attended the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference in San Antonio. I was totally honored to receive the Robert Bruss Gold Book Award, that was awarded there. But also really enjoyed spending time with this great group of people and had a wonderful time in a charming, friendly city including the Alamo, […]
Meeting a hero
It was such a treat to meet Robert Redford at his talk at the New York Times on January 8th. He’s not only the most important environmentalist we have in this country, a wonderful director, a talented actor and still handsome as can be – but he is also incredibly gracious and kind. It was […]
EcoBuild
Went to DC, one of my favorite cities to speak at the EcoBuild Convention. The convention seemed smaller and less attended than in previous years but it was interested to share the podium with Malcolm Davies of YardPod and OHome. He’s has vast experience in the prefab world, so it fun to share info with […]