I've had the pleasure of knowing Reginald Durant and Lori Whalen from Back to Natives for some time now. They're one of the usual suspects you'll find occupying vendor booths at local "green" expos and related events. I'd never had the chance to attend one of their workshops until just recently for their installation workshop at 319 21st Street, a new green home being built by Jason Scheurer of Living Green Homes (shown below). Reggie has his act down, let me tell you! Very well run workshop that's insanely informative throughout the whole day. You'll have the chance to learn about native plants, why they're so important, properly caring for our soil and why it's important to us and you'll laugh along with Reggie's witty humor as he guides you…

Monday, September 14th 2009, members of the Orange County Association of REALTORS® were treated to an exceptional panel of speakers. The Association's Green Task Force Committee was responsible for planning the event and being on the committee myself I have to say we did a fantastic job. First, we were lucky enough to reserve such well respected group of speakers from the most relative organizations. What set this presentation apart from others that I've attended was the coaching our speakers received ahead of time to ensure they did not overlap material and touched on specific topics that would best relate to residential real estate agents.     The successful event also included a small, but select group of vendor booths like…