GreenPod assists "Aging In Place"

Article About Ann Raab and GreenPod in The Leader

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Credit for article: Port Townsend Jefferson County Leader, Homes and Garden,

Spring 2013, pp 1-12, Port Townsend, WA 

Call for Artists

Call For Artists to Show Art Work

At Grand Opening of New Showrooms

In Senergy Station

1531 W Sims Way

Port Townsend

Saturday, June 1st

Are you an artist looking to showcase your local, sustainable art pieces for home, garden and alternative lifestyles? Show your work in the new showrooms opening on Saturday, June 1st.

Call to reserve space with GreenPod and associates at Senergy Station in Port Townsend call 360 301 9686.

All local business are invited to join the synergy with displays, demonstrations and events at Senergy Station, 1531 W. Sims Way, Port Townsend.

Senergy Station in Port Townsend

Senergy Station is Port Townsend's latest manifestation of folks working together in a symbiosis for the greater good of individuals and the environment in which they live. Translated into English, a gas station morphed into a showcase for learning and commerce.

The transformation of the former Texaco station on Sims Way into a synergy/energy showcase is orchestrated by two of the "Dream City's" dreamers, Ann Raab, founder of GreenPod Development, builder of downsized, eco-friendly homes, and Jacob Talamante, inspiration behind Labor Leaders Northwest, an organization to train and employ youth in environmentally significant jobs.

Greenpod office in background. Factory built home in foreground

GreenPod leases Senergy Station's office in order to display educational materials about GreenPod homes, which surround the station as show models for environmental education and sales to downsizers. Scott leases the garage for space to teach youth skills from potting plants to repairing lawnmowers. Scott's team of eager learners can be contracted for a wide range of jobs from Port Townsend to Port Angeles. They repair buildings, rototill gardens, build planters and clean up messes. For more information visit www.laborleadersnw.com or phone 360-774-0469.

Top L. Students Tony Chung, Scott L'heureux and Alex Apodaca landscape with leader Jacob Talamante. Top R. Dylan Baca in training shop. Lower L. Jacob Talamante, Scott L'heureux and Alex Apodaca. Lower R. Lizanne Coker, Director, Jefferson County Home Builders Association.

Senergy Station is all about people and energy.

Alex Apodaca, Tony Chung, Scott L'heureux and Dylan Baca are avid learners and enthusiastic workers at Labor Leaders NW. They assembled a new EZ Logs building on the site in less than one day.

At any given moment a powerhouse of the industry can show up at the station. At a recent weekend work party Ron Blair, owner of a global building company, Suzanne DeVall, owner of a global, organic fabrics company, local builders and artisans joined Ann Raab and Jacob Talamante for coffee and donuts at the station.

Ron Blair, owner of EZ Logs USA and EZ Logs Earth, along with Colleen Sandberg, marketing director of EZ Logs USA, visited the Port Townsend site to instruct crews on how to assemble EZ Logs buildings and to offer sales pointers to the marketing team.

Suzanne DeVall, Ploughboy, Ron Blain, EZ Logs and Ann Raab, GreenPod

Suzanne DeVall demonstrated the latest advances in her company's efforts to produce organic dyes from waste tobacco plants for low energy impact fabrics for use by environmentally conscious home builders such as Port Townsend's GreenPod. DeVall's organic Ploughboy fabrics are used in home interior textiles, including home goods, bedding, bath towels, shower curtains and upholstery.

Also on hand to support the opening of Senergy Station were leaders in the local building industry. Lizanne Coker, director of the Jefferson County Home Builders Association, and Kevin Coker, architectural designer, contributed their time and expertise to launching the new enterprise.

Ann Raab and Scott Talamante are interviewing artisans with complimentary products to rent space at Senergy Station.

Visitors are always welcome at Senergy Station, where synergy and energy sync.

For more information call GreenPod at 800-569-0831 and visit GreenPod. Call Labor Leaders NW at 360-774-0469 and visit Labor Leaders NW.

Read article in Peninsula Daily News.

Senergy Station

1531 W Sims Way

Port Townsend, WA

Work Party on Saturday April 27

JOIN GREENPOD WORK PARTY

Saturday, April 27 from10 AM - 4 PM

Celebrate Our New Location at Houston Motors

1531 W Sims Way in Port Townsend

Demonstrations, Food, and Fun.  

Join the Fun!!!!

Come and Help Cultivate our New Location 

to Grow Green PinePod Homes in Port Townsend

PinePods Coming to Port Townsend

PinePod Cabin                                         PinePod Utility

PinePod Interior                                            PinePod Garage

GreenPod's New Location In Port Townsend

GreenPod at 1531 W Sims Way in Port Townsend

Welcome to GreenPod's new location in Port Townsend at 1531 W Sims Way. The high visibility business on Highway 20 will be a showroom and sales office for a new line of environmentally sustainable, compact living units, promoted as PinePods, with a sales price starting at $4,000. 

MAP to new location in Port Townsend.

PinePods

PinePod Cabin                                         PinePod Utility

PinePod Interior                                            PinePod Garage

New Article on Ploughboy Organics

As popular as they are, it is no secret that the fashion and tobacco industries have shady histories looming in the background. Between health and social concerns, it seems unlikely that bringing these two together could have a beneficial impact on the world. Yet after 30 years of research, textile designer Suzanne DeVall has done just that.

DeVall is the founder of Ploughboy Organics, a company that uses the tobacco plant to produce natural fabricsas well as dyes. Read article HERE.

Ann Raab – Sustainability Leader

Article about Ann Raab and GreenPod in the Port Townsend Leader.

Green Pod Intelligent Environment, Ann Raab’s Port Townsend–based company, demonstrates green building and sustainable community using local money, local builders and local craftspeople. Ann builds transportable, healthy, low-impact cottages with building materials free of chemicals and allergens, sustainable materials such as bamboo, recycled-water systems, and energy-efficient heating and lighting.

Read full article here.

GreenPod's Organic Fabrics

Read three articles – in Urban Times, in Ecouterre and Sustainablog on GreenPod's line of organic fabrics

FIRST ARTICLE ---> A Fresh Take on Sustainability in the Textile Industry

by HARLEY BARRON

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SECOND ARTICLE ---> Ploughboy Organics Turns Tobacco Waste Into Nontoxic Textiles, Dyes

by Jasmin Malik Chua, 11/15/12

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THIRD ARTICLE ---> 

Redeeming the Tobacco Plant?: Ploughboy Organics Uses Agricultural Waste to Create Textiles and Dyes

DECEMBER 4, 2012 BY TALANCIA PEA 

Green Building Slam on Sept 15

NW Ecobuilding Guild

10th Annual 10x10x10 Green Building Slam  

Celebrating Our 10th Year!

10 projects. 10 slides. 10 minutes.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

University of Washington, Kane Hall, 2nd Floor

We Are Ready!! Come one, come all!!

The venue is outstanding, the appetizers will be scrumptious beyond belief, jury decisions are made - winners are notified, adventure get-a-ways ready for auction and raffle.

Schedule is below, mark the date on your calendar, get ready to enjoy the best ever 10x10x10

Registration / Blueacre / Networking 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Slam Presentations start promptly at 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Dessert, coffee 'n tea / Adventures 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Adventure get-a-ways are up ready yourself for the auction and raffle,- check them out for your favorite!

Here are the presenters

and a brief description of their projects...

1. Green Gone Brown

Pathway Design & Construction

Paul Kocharhook, Doug Kennedy and Jim Burton 

This is the story of a Green Building project gone horribly wrong that (thankfully, by the goodwill of the Seattle Green Building community) was repaired to qualify as a 4-5 star Built Green Residence!

2. Greenpod Intelligent Environments

Greenpod Development

Ann Raab 

A new factory module which demonstrates many sustainable innovations in home construction which make the building a healthier place to inhabit.

3. Sharing a Meal

Make Design Studio

Nicole Taylor

This redesign of existing space uses a healthy home model and good design to improve life.

4. Eastside Harvest

Velocipede

George Ostrow and Walter Goodwin

This potentially Net Zero home enables its owners to harvest their energy from the sun, their water from the rain, and their food from the garden.

5. Alder Hall

Walsh Construction

Tom Goett and Mariah Grife

Efficiency is the theme that best describes Alder Hall - a 7 story mixed-use residence for 576 students on UW’s Seattle campus.

6. City Cabins

Martha Rose

Gabi Muller and Ester Katsaros with CB Anderson Architects

A simply built, well designed set of homes using fewer, but local and pure ingredients that can accommodate everyone’s changing lifestyle needs.

7. Uber Green

Sage Designs NW

Sage Saskill

A German prefab home import (the first of its kind in the United States) which features energy saving technology light years ahead of American homes.

8. Ellis Residence

Coates Design

Justin Helmbrecht

A project that underscores its harmony with nature. See one of the first LEED Platinum Residences in the Northwest.

9. Jefferson Park Community Solar Project

Silcon Energy

Gary Shaver

A solar project that integrates Photovoltaics and improves a park by providing shelter and clean energy.

10. Net Zero Energy Home

TC Legend

Ted Clifton

A Five Star, Built Green home in Ballard that incorporates solar energy and produces more power than it uses.

Rightsize Your Home

Rightsize Your Home

for the Life You Want to Live

Click HERE to read article 

about GreenPod Development

Grand Opening Sat July 7

GreenPod intelligent Environment officially opens for viewing on

Sat. July 7 from 11am - 6pm, celebrating our "Made In Port Townsend" WaterHaus model home.

The Grand Opening at Green Crossroad at the intersection of Hwy 19 and Hwy (former Courtesy Ford Dealership) will feature 25 artisans. The timing of Saturday's Grand Opening coincides with Port Townsend's Gallery Walk. 

Stop by GreenPod, a work in progress, at Green Crossroad to view the artwork of 25 artisans who contribute to the model home. Artists will be on hand for visits and inspiration.

The WaterHaus model will be open on Thursday (4pm to 6pm) and Friday (4pm to 6pm) of 4th of July weekend for sneak previews prior to the Grand Opening on Saturday.

Thank You for Your Vote

Thank you to all of you who voted for Greenpod Intelligent Designs to win a $250,000 grant We'll post information about Greenpod's progress in the grant process. Thank you again!!!!!

Greenpod Interior Photos

Photo Gallery

Buy a Pod

Value of a Greenpod - Why Own a Greenpod Home

GreenPods are energy efficient, non toxic homes, which are built using green construction methods based upon sustainability and low impact, environmental footprints. GreenPods are designed for the site, the budget and individual life style. Pod designs from 300 to 800 square feet can be financed with bank loans.

Process - From 1st Consultation to Completed Pod

What is the process of choosing a Greenpod, making sure it is compatible for my lot? How do I work with Greenpod to design my pod and get it constructed? Where do I start?

Where Do We Start? - 3 Step Process

1. Consultation

2. Design

3. Construction

Greenpod Specifications

You have a site where you want to place your pod. You need to have your site reviewed to assure it can accommodate your pod. You want to know how much work needs to be done to prepare for the big day when your pod arrives. After your initial consultation with a Greenpod expert your site plan will be ordered.

GreenPods incorporate movable walls, multi-use furnishings, lighting and windows to visually enlarge the Pod's living spaces. Pods incorporate innovative designs and artful furnishings. Options and add-ons include solar heating packages and garages with electric car chargers.

Costs - How Does a Greenpod Cost Out?

Need additional square footage? Pods can be joined or stacked, creating any number of possible design. Pods are perfect for commercial applications from temporary structures to drive through restaurants.

If you are interested in learning how one of these Homes of the Future can fit into your present, contact a Greenpod sales agent.

contact:

Dan Youra

Sales Manager

360-379-8800

dan@BuyGreenPod.com

BuyGreenPod.com

GreenPod Artisans

Seth Rolland, furniture designer

Seth Rolland is an award-winning designer and craftsman of custom furniture, whose integration of wood and stone draws gasps of awe from admirers of his artistic home furnishings. For the bathroom in GreenPod’s WaterHaus Seth sculpted a sink out of a primitive rock, and dropped it into a thick slab of fir.

The distinctive vanity and back splash incorporate wall-mounted faucets. Seth’s website is SethRolland.com

Michael Hamilton, craftsman

Michael Hamilton, craftsman and designer of fine furniture, creates the artistic and efficient stacking tables and sliding doors for GreenPod’s WaterHaus. The embodiment of the best in Shaker and Japanese wood working, Michael builds nesting tables that integrate sustainable, FSC certified fir with inlaid Richlite, a solid surface of recycled composite for durability and beauty. His nesting chairs are cushioned with GreenPod’s own organic fabrics and dyes. Sliding, glass doors from this artist share light and warmth between GreenPod’s rooms. Michael’s website is LignaArts.com

Gail Miller, artist

Artist Gail Miller textures GreenPod’s interior walls with mold-resistant, moisture-controlling clays and natural pigments from the color palette of American Clay, the artisan’s choice for interiors that nurture as beautifully as they shelter. Born in the adobe-walled Southwest, a student of Tucson’s College of Architecture,

Gail aggregates her talents with culture and education in her unique application of non-toxic plasters, which are attractive, durable and toned to GreenPod’s woodwork and interior accents. Gail’s website is ArtisansClayAndPaint.com