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Green Prefab Queen: Michelle Kaufmann calls it quits.

Modern Prefab On The Ropes: Michelle Kaufmann Packs It In : TreeHugger.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/green-prefab-firm-michelle-kaufmann-designs-is-closing.html

Michelle Kaufmann, the queen of prefab design and marketing, who when I wrote her best of green award, said "an entire industry rides on her coat-tails."

Michelle tried to turn it into a system; not just the design and production, but the marketing, sales and promotion. She was a mashup of Henry Ford and Martha Stewart, out to change the way the industry worked. She succeeded, only to fall victim to a crisis not of her making, a crisis of vision.

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