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Offbeat Homes

September 14th, 2008

Classic Offbeat Homes: Offbeat Homes for Pets

We don’t see many animal posts here. I’m not a big pet fan, and frankly, there are not too many animal homes. However, we have seen a smattering of pretty cool pet abodes and this is the focus of our classic Offbeat post this week.
My favorite pet home post here ever was: Sustainable Homes for […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

July 6th, 2008

Green Design Link for You - Jantzen’s Power Towers

Who remembers Jantzen? In case you forgot, we visited his work here a while back. Here’s a refresher:

A Dreamy Mixture of Art & Architecture
Human Shelter: Air, Water, & Earth

I’m bringing this up because, I just saw that G Living’s design section has a cool post up about Jantzen; Architect Michael Jantzen Replacing Smoke Stacks With […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

February 3rd, 2008

48 Links All In A Line… (part two)

In part one, I figured I’d send link love out to everyone in the channel this week - then I got tired. I covered half of the channel in the last post and now for the other half.
Mad Cropper: Valentine’s Day card ideas. Just what you need (only two weeks left).

Marriage Actually: Trying to […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

December 9th, 2007

The Smallest (Real) Home on the Planet

I can’t 100% guarantee the title (you know those kooky home builders) but I’m pretty sure this is the smallest home I’ve ever seen. So small in fact, that one can push it around the city, or the forest, on a hill, in a national park. Of course, this may be the only home you […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 25 comments

October 15th, 2007

Happy Blog Action Day!

If you haven’t guessed yet; it’s Blog Action Day. At last count (I’m not updating all day so…) but at the last count there were 15,568 blogs signed up to participate with a total rss reach of 12,507,731. Not bad. That’s a whole lot of bloggers blogging about the environment. Many bloggers participating are part […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

August 29th, 2007

Got Offbeat Architect Kids?

I write for a living so me and my six year old son Cedar can hang out but does that impress Cedar. In a word, no.
He could care less what I do but he loves Offbeat, he likes the houses and the furniture; he really wants an extravagant treehouse I can’t possible afford.
Him and I […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 7 comments

August 15th, 2007

It’s Sol Fest Time!

Sol Fest XII is happening real soon; as in three days from now (August 18-19). I meant to plug it sooner — but darn it, I’m not going this year so I forgot.
Sol Fest is amazing. If you live close to the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California or if you’re up for a quick-like […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 5 comments

June 11th, 2007

Green Is The New Black

Or so that’s what I hear. Heard, to be exact, last night on the Red, Hot, & Green special on HGTV. I’d like to take this moment to point out that I did list this show as an “Offbeat Hot” last week. Turns out I was right. This show was very cool.
I felt that the […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments