Design Awards for Geos
- National Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2009
- First Prize, Colorado Sustainable Design Awards, for Sustainable Community Design, 2009
- Land Stewardship Award for Planning, American Society of Landscape Architects Colorado Chapter, 2009
- Merit Award for Planning, American Society of Landscape Architects Colorado Chapter, 2009
- Citation Award, American Institute of Architects Colorado Chapter, 2006
- Honor Award, American Institute of Architects Denver Chapter, 2006
- Sustainability Award, American Institute of Architects Denver Chapter, 2006
Books about Geos
- A GUIDE TO ENERGY MASTER PLANNING OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISTRICTS AND COMMUNITIES, NREL, November 2020
- The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual, Christina Hopfe and Rob McLeod, editors, Routledge, 2014
- Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies, Third Edition, G.Z. Brown and Mark Dekay, John Wiley and Sons, 2014
- Zero Carbon Homes: A Road Map, Jo Williams, Routledge, 2011
- Exhibition Catalog, Artists’ Footprints, RedLine Art Center, 2010
- Landscape World Vol 24, Seoul, South Korea, 2009
- Colorado Urbanizing, Colorado Chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism, 2009
Articles, Press, Exhibitions, Websites, and Television about Geos
- “Climate-Responsive Urbanism: Historic Precedents and Progressive Practice,” in Journal of the 2011 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory International Symposium
- “A Case Study in Patterns for Sustainable Urbanism: The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood,” in Current Challenges for Patterns, Pattern Languages & Sustainability: Journal of the 2009 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory Symposium
- “Sustainable Landscapes,” National ASLA website, features Geos
- “Sustainable Communities,” in Urban Farm Magazine, Fall 2010
- Exhibition: “Colorado ASLA Award Winners,” Denver Public Library Central Branch, Denver, CO, 2009
- “Geos Wins Honor Award,” World Architecture News, May 20, 2009
- “Green Home Projects in a Down Economy,” New York Times. 19 August, 2009
- “Beyond the Call of Green,” ColoradoBiz Magazine, cover article, November, 2009
- “There goes the [fossil fuel] neighborhood,” Sustainable Industries, Sept 3, 2009
- “Geos wins Honor Award,” Architect Colorado, Summer 2009
- “2009 ASLA awards,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, August, 2009
- “Architect with Local Roots is Embracing Green Building in a Big Way,” Estes Park Trail Gazette, July 15 & 17, 2009
- “Colorado Design Firms win National Award,” Exposures, ASLA Colorado, June, 2009
- “Houses move off the grid, into mainstream,” Denver Post, May 10, 2009
- “Architect Michael Tavel and the Subdivision of the Future,” New West, April 10, 2009
- “New Colorado Neighborhood Aims for Net Zero Energy Use,” UrbanLand Magazine, ULI, June 2008
- “How Green Is My Realtor,” Wall Street Journal, 19 Feb, 2008
- Architect Colorado Magazine, Winter 2008, feature article on Geos design team member Michael Tavel
- “New Neighborhood Embraces Energy-Efficient Standards, People-Friendly Features,” Boulder County Business Report, 28 March, 2008
- “A Renewable Energy Community: Key elements,” N. Carlisle, J. Elling, and T. Penney, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Technical Report NREL/TP-540-42774 January 2009
- Exhibition, “Outside the Box,” AIA Colorado, Denver, CO
- “Zero Energy Meets New Urbanism,” Boulder Green Building Journal, Spring 2007
- “This Village Lowers Utility Bills,” The Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, 20 February 2007
- “Imagining an Arvada neighborhood that uses no energy at all,” Denver Post, 24 December 2006
- “2006 Honor and Design Awards” Architect Colorado Magazine, Winter 2006
Public Presentations of Geos:
2013 National Convention of the American Institute of Architects
2012 Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, CO
2012 University of Denver School of Law, Denver (Invitation from Susan Daggett, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute and wife of Senator Michael Bennet)
2012 College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver
2011 American Institute of Architects National Conference, New Orleans
2011 American Society of Landscape Architects National Conference, San Diego, CA
2011 Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, Denver, CO
2011 Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory, Portland, OR
2011 Keynote Presentation, American Institute of Architects Vermont Chapter, Annual Conference, Burlington, VT
2011 Colorado’s Next Urbanism, Congress for New Urbanism, Denver, CO
2011 Boulder Green Building Guild, Boulder, CO
2011 RedLine Art Center, Denver, CO
2011 Arvada Planning Commission, Arvada, CO
2011 Sustainable Estes Conference, Estes Park, CO
2010 Boulder Public Library, Sponsored by City of Boulder, Boulder, CO
2010 United States Green Building Guild, Colorado Conference, Boulder, CO
2010 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference, Denver, CO
2010 National Cohousing Conference, Boulder, CO
2010 Environmental Design Research Association National Conference, Washington, DC
2010 University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning, Boulder, CO
2009 Congress for New Urbanism National Conference, Denver, CO
2009 Designing the New West Conference, Bozeman, MT
2009 Designing the New West Conference, Boise, ID
2009 Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory, Portland, OR
2008 American Institute of Architects Students, National Conference, Denver, CO
2008 American Planning Association, Colorado Chapter, Annual Conference, Breckenridge, CO
2008 Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Urban Land Institute Placemaking Conference, Denver, CO
2008 City of Golden Planning Commission, Golden, CO
2007 American Council of Engineering Companies, National Seminar on Green Infrastructure, Denver, CO
2007 Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (sponsored by US State Department)
2007 Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Planning, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (sponsored by US State Department)