You don’t often write the building trades, women and environmentalism in the same paragraph.

Or decade.

But here are three local women who have blazed trails of innovation on the frontier of sustainable housing. Look for where their technical skills intersected with passion and resilience in each story.

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Green home builder aims
for the mainstream

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.

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New green townhomes in Columbia City, WSU’s small farms success, eco-breakfasts

By 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 at the new Rainier Vista Community in Columbia City.

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Design Perspectives:
Take a look at how Southeast Seattle is changing

By CLAIR ENLOW Special to the Journal

Southeast Seattle — that vast swath of under-appreciated land that stretches from Interstate 90 south to the city limits — has suffered from poverty and invisibility, but its time is coming.

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Retail Notebook:
Columbia City gets makeover

By KRISTEN MILLARES BOLT SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Walking around Columbia City in the late summer dusk feels like dropping in on a neighbor's barbecue.

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