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Extraordinary Experiment

Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:12:53 +0000

The 2,200 square-foot house located in New York’s Hudson Valley was originally conceived to be a small energy efficient house where Michael McDonough could camp out on the weekends with his wife, Corinne Trang, and their four-year old daughter, Colette. But the more Michael researched energy efficient systems, the more he wanted to push the envelope and experiment with green concepts. “I was excited by the new building technologies introduced over the last fifteen years,” explains Michael. “It occurred to me that no one had looked at all of them at once by vetting them out and putting them all in one building.” Out went his idea for a simple weekend house, and in came the concept of a livable lab.

You can read more about the McDonough-Trang e-House plus 16 more rural, suburban and urban green homes in our book, “Dreaming Green”

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Press: Our Green Townhouse in the News

Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:20:13 +0000

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Good Housekeeping Magazine’s “Your Good House” Article on Our Green House

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New York House Magazine Article on our Green Townhouse

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Enter to win a free consultation from Lisa & Paul

Lisa Sharkey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:56:09 +0000

Want to convert your house or apartment to a clean, green home and don’t know where to start? Believe me, we’ve been there! Use the form below and tell us what you want to do. Include what you have to work with and what you want to renovate. Do you want to improve your energy conservation or reduce your carbon footprint? Do you want to learn about green building materials or just re-furnish with eco-friendly furniture? Tell us your goals. Paul and I will pick one request every week and consult the winner by phone. If you’re local to the New York City area, we can even stop by for a visit. Please include a photo using the form below.

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Share Your Green House Story…

Lisa Sharkey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:30:44 +0000

Are you living the Green Dream? Have you swapped out your old life for a cleaner, greener one or are you just getting started? No matter how large or small, we want to hear your ideas. Submit your green-living tips with a photo and we’ll publish them right here on DreamingGreenBook.com!

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Dreaming Green Eco-Fabulous Homes Designed to Inspire

Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:03:55 +0000

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For anyone with eco-friendly ideals as well as a penchant for high style, Dreaming Green showcases seventeen inspiring homes that are at once luxurious, beautiful, and fashioned inside and out with green materials, design, and details.

While renovating their Manhattan brownstone, Lisa Sharkey and LEED-accredited architect Paul Gleicher’s top priority was to create a home that was light on the earth and completely free of the harmful products that are often found in building and decorative supplies. A sophisticated couple who entertain frequently, Sharkey and Gleicher also demanded a home that was beautiful from the basement to the top floor’s sunroom. They sourced stylish and elegant materials, designed small and large spaces for flawless efficiency, and finished the project with responsible yet stunning finds.

Dreaming Green features the Sharkey-Gleicher brownstone as well as sixteen other environmentally responsible, impeccably designed residences that will stir readers to reimagine their homes as places that marry responsibility and beauty. From cities and suburbs to the countryside, Dreaming Green showcases places of myriad sizes, shapes, and styles. Each space, with its floors, gorgeous fabrics, nontoxic paints and finishes, wall coverings, furniture, fixtures, use of recycled materials, and other details, is a treasure for the eye and a gift to the earth. What’s more, Sharkey and Gleicher highlight unseen design elements that conserve resources, such as passive heating and cooling methods and ideas for low-impact building and renovation, among other innovations. The spaces on display here prove that saving the earth never needs to compromise comfort and elegance.

Make yourself at home and lose yourself in:
• An English Tudor-style home in Austin, Texas, that was built from cast earth clay and utilizes a wind-powered energy system. The home is decorated throughout with gorgeous antiquities and salvaged materials.
• An upstate New York eco-farmhouse perfectly situated on a hilltop and designed to catch the breezes from the surrounding Berkshire hills. The owner-architect used local craftspeople-none based more than a mile away-to further the “buy local” ideal.
• An Ann Arbor, Michigan, “sunhome” built to capture the sun’s rays for maximum heating and lighting. The modern marvel is U-shaped to accommodate an eighty-year-old magnolia growing on the property.
• A glamorous southern showplace in Atlanta, Georgia, which the owners christened “Ecomanor.” It hearkens back to the stateliness of an earlier time but is also a model of contemporary energy efficiency and sustainability.

Lavishly photographed, Dreaming Green also boasts an invaluable resource section-a boon to anyone embarking on making a green home, renovating a current residence into one, or just dreaming about doing so. Dreaming Green is both a practical guide and a rich source of inspiration.
About the Author

LISA SHARKEY was Good Morning America’s senior producer and is now senior vice president and director of creative development at HarperCollins. Her husband, LEED-accredited architect PAUL GLEICHER, is the founder and president of Gleicher Design Group, a prestigious architectural and design firm in New York City.