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Residential Solar Build Project of the Year: City Cabins at Abbott’s Alley

Solar Builder Project of the Year submissions were sent in throughout the year by the solar community at-large — developers, EPCs, contractors and manufacturers — to highlight the year’s most outstanding solar sites. The Solar Builder editorial staff reviewed each entry and nominated our favorite 15 projects../p>

Live-work units, a throwback to the past, come to Sedro-Woolley

Abbott’s Alley live-work units in Sedro-Woolley are designed to allow the owners to have a business on the ground floor and live upstairs./p>

Martha Rose Construction
Project: Queen City Eco Village: the Homestead

The Queen City Eco Village consists of (3) new 5-star Built Green Homes, a 4-star certified restoration of the 1904 farmhouse, and has been certified as a Built Green Community.

Conscience, Class and Crafstmanship
in Columbia City
Date: July 9,2007
Author: Cedar Burnett

Historically, we've been big fans of bigness in this country. We like big houses, big cars, big highways, big hair and big meals served in big restaurants flanked with big parking lots. In our culture...

Martha Rose Construction:
5-Star Esplanade House
Source: Built Green: Date: April,2007

This month's featured project is a beautiful 5-Star single-family Esplanade House in Ballard. Built by Martha Rose, of Martha Rose Construction, and verified by Dan Wildenhaus of Atmosphere this home included...

Rainier Vista Case Study

Case study of the Martha Rose Construction Rainier Vista planned community project in Southeast Seattle. Linked on > metrokc.gov website (4th link down).

Queens of Green
Source: Seattle Conscious Choice
Author: Heather Nordell

Get a job that earns a man’s wage,” a friend exhorted Martha Rose three decades ago, as Rose was about to turn 21. Rose took the advice to heart but...

CC’s look at local economies and sustainable biz
Source: Seattle Conscious Choice
Author: Heather Nordell

BUILT GREEN design award winner Martha Rose Construction and listing agent GreenWorks Realty announce a grand opening, Jan. 22, for the first of 13 new townhomes available...

Green home builder aims for the mainstream
Source: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Author: Marc Stiles

Builder Martha Rose is the queen of green. Some of the homes her Seattle company is building in Seattle's Rainier Vista are pre-wired for photo-voltaic panels. Some have passive solar atriums and...

"The Green Rose of Seattle"
Source: Seattle Metropolitan

Just off upper Greenwood Avenue, on a former chicken farm that's now her latest housing miniproject, Martha Rose faces a moment of truth, in the form of a garden hose and a virgin driveway ...

"Behind the Walls"
Newspaper Source: The Enterprise, Shoreline

Home Tour It's a balancing act with higher costs associated with building green, but as more people get educated, the demand for Built Green homes will continue to increase. Martha Rose Construction holds educational tours of 3 recently built homes...

Appeal of 'green' houses grows with financial incentives
Newspaper Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

For the first time in this state, individuals will be paid by their local utility to produce electricity, whether they do the job with miniwind generators, photovoltaic solar panels or gas-producing anaerobic digesters of garbage or manure.

Energy Efficient Homes
Source: "Lifestyle: Seattle"t

In today's era of skyrocketing utility costs, Americans are seeking ways to conserve energy and save on water usage while still living in comfort. As modern composite building products have replaced old-fashioned wood and other inert ...

Hardcover: Edens Lost & Found -
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
Authors: Harry Wiland and Dale Bell; with Joseph D'Agnese

For Martha Rose, the philosophy of green building is the culmination of a lifetime of strong ideas about sustainable shelter. When she was only nineteen years old, Chicago-born Rose took a job as a carpenter on a construction site in the Washington, DC, area. “The work was hard,” she remembers, “but I liked it.”...