Blog Posts By Month: March, 2011

ArtHaus in SD Home & Garden Magazine

If you've kept up on our blog, you know how proud we are to have been a part of Rich Williams' ArtHaus 2 project in Leucadia. And deservedly so, the project is featured in this month's San Diego Home & Garden Magazine. 

Among the many great things about the house (spectacular design, great location, awesome team, etc etc), it "is the second certified "LEED for Homes" single-family project for the region ...

The residence not only has the U.S. Green Building Council's highest certification rating of LEED Platinum, it also is San Diego's first LEED for Homes and GreenPointRated certified project. There are only a few California homes that have qualified for this certification. Williams says both programs require an independent third-party verification on the home's green features. This assures homebuyers that the residence truly has been built in a sustainable manner and helps eliminate what is known as "greenwashing," the practice of some residential developers to simply tout their homes as eco-friendly."

If you've ever been involved with the certification of a building for LEED, you know it requires a meticulous look at everything, from your internal practices, to the practices of suppliers, to every piece of material you use and how it is installed. In short - it is no easy feat! So thanks for doing what you do, Rich!

To read more about the house and its list of green components, check out the article HERE, or find the "Home Feature" article on www.sdhg.net!

Jim's New Girlfriend

You may all remember this image as Jim, the Plant Man. (This awesome picture was created and taken by Chris Giles. Check out Chris' other great works HERE).

Now it seems that the Plant Man finally has a Plant Woman! We don't know her name yet, but Jim has officially made her his new girlfriend....whether she knows it or not :) 

WSJ.com: The Mighty, Mighty Houseplant

A Superhero Scrubs the Air: The Mighty Houseplant

By Gwendolyn Bounds

"The humble houseplant is on the attack. Building on NASA experiments for air purification in space, scientists are pinpointing plant species—from the peace lily to the asparagus fern—that are particularly skillful at cleaning indoor air of pollutants that can cause a range of health problems...."

Read the rest of the Wall Street Journal article HERE!