[GSBN] Holiday Greeetings ... and the Favor of Your Support

[Dan Smith]

Well done David, timely and eyepoppingly relevant, thanks for putting  
the numbers to the image.

Dan

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Dan Smith
Principal - DSA Architects
1107 Virginia St.
Berkeley, CA 94702
510.526.1935 x101
510.526.1961 fax
dan at dsaarch.com
www.dsaarch.com

On Dec 20, 2011, at 3:51 PM, David Arkin, AIA wrote:

> Hello GSBN Community:
>
> In short, I'm aiming to counter a promotion of excess with the  
> message of simplicity ... see below, and if so inclined, please  
> share it with your circles.
>
> Apologies for this being slightly off topic, and doubly so that ours  
> isn't (yet) a straw-bale home.  Nonetheless, sincere good wishes for  
> the Holidays,
>
> David
>
> *  *  *  *  *
>
> Dear Friends Near and Far:
>
> Patch.com has launched a 'Deck the House' contest:  http://deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/albany 
>   The premise is that the 'best decked' house in the US wins  
> $100,000 for their local school district.  As you'll see from the  
> links below, some (most) use electricity like there's no tomorrow.   
> In fact, Patch is giving 24 finalists $500 to offset their December  
> energy bills.
>
> We've decked our house with 6.3 watts of electricity ... probably a  
> lot less than most of the others, but enough to add a little cheer  
> to our street on dark winter nights.  So far as I can tell ours is  
> the only house from our town posted right now, and it's easily the  
> lowest energy user of them all.  See it and please vote for it at  
> this link:
>
> http://deckthehouse.patch.com/entry/229160
>
> Please forward the link and this message around ... together we can  
> spread the word that simplicity and conservation and renewable  
> energy are worthy of celebration, and maybe just maybe win that  
> $100,000 for our local Albany, CA schools.  But we have to spread  
> the word fast ... the leader (so far as I can tell) now has 1746  
> votes, and voting ends on Dec. 26th.

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