THIS IS RAD!

CHECK this out. It has the same style as an iPhone tutorial. LOVE IT.

http://cinegis.com/refracthouse/CineGIS.html

A Model of Sustainable + Holistic Living

2009 Solar Decathalon TEAM CALIFORNIA IS KICKING ASS! 1st Place in Architecture!

The Solar Decathlon is a competition between the top architectural and engineering schools throughout the world challenging students to create the best solar efficient and architecturally functional home. Not only to they design every inch of this home, but they also build a full scale model that competes on “the mall” in Washington DC for the public and judges to tour.

This year, California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University teamed up to tackle to project using the strengths of both schools to create the home. CCA brought the architecture and design, and Santa Clara showed their expertise with the engineering. This combo is proving to be a successful as they took home the First place in architecture and communications beating the likes of Cornell, Germany, Boston and Spain—to name a few. There are a few more categories to be judged, but CCA killed it with the Design/Architecture portion.

As a former student of CCA and a former member of the decathlon team, I am so pumped on the outcome. The amount of time and positive energy put towards this project by Team California was enough to create this innovative and holistic approach to living sustainably!

Great job Team California!
Check out the links here to learn more about the project!

http://www.refracthouse.com/

http://www.solardecathlon.org/

AND i'm back!!

Sorry Kids, I KNOW you missed me. Had to take a little LBR break to focus on launching this-->

http://www.rubiconcollection.com/

Check it out!!

My Home and Lifestyle store in Lake Tahoe is finally online and I am so pumped.

So now that is launched, I will have a little more time between the programming of the new ONLINE STORE that will be a part of the Rubicon Collection Online experience.

Above is an image by Embry Rucker--part of our inspiration for the Look section!