Carla Bruni is an historic preservationist, architectural historian, certified energy rater, and neurotic volunteer. Her goal is to bridge the gap between historic preservationists and green building advocates as she feels they desperately need each other.
Carla has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Loyola University and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her focus was Greening Historic Homes. Over the past couple of years, she has left Chicago to work on hands-on restoration projects in Washington, Idaho, and New Orleans, which she visits every few months to help with hurricane rebuilding efforts. Some might say she is downright obsessed.
Carla has given academic lectures and workshops on topics including: historically sensitive green retrofits, window repair vs. replacement, traditional restoration techniques for log cabin structures, and post-Katrina preservation planning in New Orleans, among others. She is a freelance consultant and works regularly with the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association and other local organizations. She is also a Preservation Chicago board member and a consultant to the Chicago Green Homes Program and gives tours at the Chicago Center for Green Technology, mostly because she’s still trying to find at least one of those elusive praying mantis in the retention pond.
In her spare time, Carla works for free, leaving her no spare time.
good for you, Carla……so awesome you are!!! 🙂
If you can get me a paying job let me know….lol
Hey thanks! And I wish I could hook you up, but after December, the world is my oyster. Or rather my oatmeal, as I will in no way be able to afford oysters.
Carla–
It’s a joy to continue watching you accomplish great things in this arean. Thanks for your help in keeping it real.
Neal Vogel
Restoric, LLC
You can do it! This is such a time of opportunity as people begin to recognize green building and preservation as necessary. Keep up the great work!
hi carla…..cool website…congrats!
Cool site! But isn’t it, “Carla Bruni is a historic preservationist.”? Whitney and I are debating… 🙂
Anyway, you should invest $50 and advertise your
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Once you get a hundred or so viewers a day (enough to make the application worth it) , you can run Google Adsense, which networks your sites with other similar sites, and shares any revenues that you can bring.
You can also straight up affiliate market for companies that
you believe are good and honest, and get a cut of the
pie.
I think what you are doing is awesome, and with a little
internet marketing know-how, you could couple your
brilliant information flow with some $$ flow. As long as you continue to update your page everyday, keep adding witty comics and videos, you will get subscribers and grow the green building community around your little corner of the internet. Did I say “grow the green?”
Do you mean ‘a’ vs. ‘an’ in that sentance? Both are correct, so you are both right. Ding, ding, ding!
Very impressive site Carla. Your Brother seems to have a lot of good suggestions to further your pursuit of possible net working. I am proud to know someone like you who is trying to make positive changes on our planet. Lots of luck. Cheers Tim
Carla –
Has anyone lately told you how freakin’ awesome you are?! I LOVE what you’re promoting, how damn impressive this site is and am constantly amazed at how much you do/have done in our field!!!!!
I feel so cool knowing you!
Love from Idaho,
Kathryn
Aw heck. Thanks, lady! I keep hearing about Idaho lately and my heart is crying out for some forest time. Let’s come up with some kind of green preservation project for Heyburn that I can come out and work on!
This was an impressive rant today. Would you consider writing for TreeHugger? I need more design, more green tech, more preservation and more Chicago.
Lloyd: Interestingly, I thought of you specifically as I was hitting “publish.” Yes, I’d love to write for TreeHugger. Email me at carlabruni@greenpreservationist.org and let’s talk.