This is goofy and funny and I always love poking fun at the stigma around environmentalists.

I think my favorite tip: “Make love to Mother Earth…”

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Green real estate blogger Keith from Greenerati wrote a review of my keynote presentation at West Coast Green. Now, I am friends with Keith, so he knows me well enough to call me “fiesty” in a good way.

Read the full story here.

You can download a PDF of my full keynote presentation here (though you miss my talk and the cool animations on the slides).

I was interviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle to talk about West Coast Green.

My favorite part? Being described as “cheeky.”

An excerpt:
Back for its sophomore edition, the nation’s largest green building conference really puts its money where its mouth is by erecting a green modular home in front of the auditorium on a patch of grass below Mayor Gavin Newsom’s balcony in City Hall.
Dubbed the Lotus, the 725-square-foot home is the brainchild of green architect Michelle Kaufmann and boasts solar panels, LED lights, a gray-water system that collects water from sinks and the shower and recirculates it to toilets, an energy-saving “on-demand” water heater and native landscaping. For those who’ll need to take a load off just to contemplate the home’s ramifications, there’s also a backyard complete with chaise longues.

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Self proclaimed professional nerd Andrew Lipson has re-created M.C. Escher’s famous drawing, “Relativity” out of LEGOs.

As a kid, I used to try to copy Escher’s incredible work, but I only used pencil and paper. You can see more construction photos here.

More on Escher…

From Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: “I Need to Wake Up”

or Watch here on YouTube

Winner of the Oscar for Best Original Song (and the movie won Best Documentary)

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