Join us for a personal tour from homeowners Peter and Kas Guillozet who took their existing 2bedroom/1 bath, 800 square foot home and completely overhauled it into a 1,500 ft sq. house with 800 ft sq. ADU.
“New” features include:
Basketball floors, bleacher trim
Recycled cabinets and doors
Fiberglass windows
Stucco/Hardi/cedar siding
Metal roof
Radiant heat
HRV
Spray foam insulation
ADU below (Auxillary Dwelling Unit)
Low VOC [...]
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Calendar of Events
Guillozet Home Tour
January 22, 2011
Tour The Commons w/ The Moon Brothers
October 23, 2010
The Commons is designed to reach beyond today’s highest green building standards and become the first U.S. home to meet the Living Building Challenge. The Commons will generate all its own energy – without fossil fuels, reclaim all its water, be free of unhealthy materials and be a place of beauty and community.
A collaboration between [...]
Build it Green! Home Tour
September 25, 2010
SAVE THE DATE!
(September 25th, 11am-5pm)
Join us for our annual Build it Green! Home Tour caravan. We meet at the Beaterville Cafe for breakfast and head out together to see as many of the homes on tour as possible. You are responsible for ordering your booklet/ticket in advance – please [url=http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=41893]CLICK HERE[/url] for ordering information. Booklets [...]
Cascadia Commons CoHousing Tour
August 29, 2010
The Cascadia Commons CoHousing Community is comprised of townhomes, single family homes, wetlands, bird sanctuary, community garden, workshop and more. We’ll get a private tour of the whole shebang by one of the residents. Bring a sack lunch and we’ll eat together.
TO RSVP: Cascadia Commons CoHousing Tour
Limited to 25 participants.
Corehaus Tour + Lunch Discussion
July 31, 2010
The Corehaus is one of Portland’s first homes to achieve (and exceed) the Passive House standard.
This super insulated home was designed and built by architect Robert Hawthorne and construction consultant Bart Berquist. Built under 1500 square feet, this North Tabor area home utilizes advanced framing technique, tankless hot water, is solar PV ready, and has insulative [...]
Omey-Suri Tour
June 26, 2010
We’re invited back to the Omey House! This time it’s a potluck PLUS a tour of the Suri Iron Works just down the street given by the metal man himeself who did all of the creative sculpting work at the Omey House.
Tour starts at 10am at Corey and Deb Omey’s house, with potluck (bring something [...]
World Premiere of Deep Green Film
June 22, 2010
World Premier Gala of Documentary Deep Green, produced and directed by Portlan’s very own Matt Briggs.
June 22nd – Meet us early to enjoy the live pre-show band. Show starts at 7pm.
For more information, visit http://www.deepgreenfilms.org….
Tickets are $6 and have been reserved in advance. To RSVP to attend this show with GreenPDX members, go to http://www.meetup.com/greenpdx/calendar/13643818/
Networking Potluck with Guest Speaker Eli Spevak
May 15, 2010
Guest speaker Eli Spevak is the leader in creating cohousing communities in Portland. Known for developing Peninsula Park Commons, Sabin Green, Ruth’s Cottages and more, Eli will be here to give a presentation on what it takes to create a cohousing project in Portland, with Q&A to follow.
Also, take this opportunity to meet other GreenPDX [...]
Sabin Green Co-House Tour
April 24, 2010
We’ll tour one of four homes in the co-housing community known as Sabin Green. Homeowner David Sweet will give us a tour and discuss what makes his home, and community, so special. Featuring solar PV and more. Afterwards, let’s trek to nearbyVita Cafe for post tour discussion. Mark you calendars – RSVP’s NOW! - space will fill [...]
LEED Platinum, Orchid Street Home Tour
March 20, 2010
This tour will be given by the owner and architect, Jeffrey Prose of Building Arts Workshop, LLC. The home is an attached unit – one structure, two homes – making efficient use of the lot size. Besides being one of the first LEED Plantinum homes in Portland, the design also won the Portland Spaces Root [...]
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