When management consultant Linda Yates and her Silicon Valley venture capitalist husband Paul Holland decided to build a new home on the same Portola Valley, California hillside where Yates had grown up in a conventional ranch-style house, the couple made a momentous decision: that residential property—inside and out—was going to be green to the max.
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Taking eco green to the max
Land beyond LEED
Amy checks out the future of a regenerative building at a California home designed to surpass all LEED building standards, pay its own bills and harvest its own water, all while housing a crowd
The sustainable sites initiative elevates the importance of landscape
Tah Mah Lah, a LEED-Platinum home on 2.7 acres in Portola Valley, Calif., has a bio-filtered swimming pool, native plants, and an irrigation system that uses treated blackwater and rainwater collected in a 50,000-gallon cistern.
Green home of the year
Green Builder Media, North America’s leading media company focused on sustainable living, recently announced the winners of its 4th Annual Green Builder Home of the Year Awards
The greenest home in the making
Venture capitalist Paul Holland is building America's highest LEED GreenPoint Rated house in Portola Valley, California
Venture capitalists in ‘greenest home’ race
Clean technology is among the hottest sectors in Silicon Valley, with venture capitalists pouring billions of dollars into companies they hope will upend the carbon economy.
Xanadu. A California couple seeks to build the world’s greenest home
Paul Holland and Linda Yates thought it only natural, when they set out to build a luxury home six years ago, that theirs would be the world’s greenest
San Francisco’s innovative green homes
The San Francisco Bay Area sits at the intersection of environmentalism and technological innovation, so it’s natural that this market would produce some of the country’s most innovative green homes
San Francisco’s innovative green homes
The San Francisco Bay Area sits at the intersection of environmentalism and technological innovation, so it’s natural that this market would produce some of the country’s most innovative green homes
Green kingpins part 5: Paul Holland and the VCs at Foundation Capital
Foundation Capital is a disciplined greentech venture investor. The VC firm has attempted to stay away from billion-dollar solar factory investments like Solyndra and Nanosolar
