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Who says that a home with cutting-edge energy efficiency has to look like an ultra-modern pod? This recently completed Wisconsin home packs so much energy tech that it makes money by selling electricity back to the grid, and it still keeps a low neighborhood profile.
Inside the 'zero carbon' future home
One of the UK's leading housebuilders, Miller Homes, claims to have built a zero carbon house as part of the effort to combat climate change.
Zero carbon means no emissions of the global warming gas, carbon dioxide.
Over the next few years the rules on how green homes have to be are going to become gradually tougher. And there are warnings that they will push up the cost of buying a new home.
Greenpeace report calls for major home efficiency programme | Energy Efficiency News
The UK Government should be investing in a major home energy efficiency programme as part of its fiscal stimulus package, according to a report out today commissioned by Greenpeace.
Google PowerMeter Will Provide Real-Time Home Energy Information on Your Computer
Google is persisting in its quest to change the way we live with the announcement earlier today of Google PowerMeter, a program that displays real-time information about home energy consumption on your computer.
The House That Twitters Its Energy Use « Earth2Tech
Can Twitter help you turn your lights off? IBM’s “Master Inventor” Andy Stanford-Clark has rigged up his home to twitter its energy use, and if you follow the tweets you can see in real time when Stanford-Clark has turned his lights and fountain off or on and whether he has an “unusually high electricity use” or has reduced power consumption.
Semi-Submerged Eco Luxury Home - Trilobis 65 (GALLERY)
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We’ve seen all sorts of cool homes on Trend Hunter, like tree houses and shipping container homes. We’ve also seen a rising obsession with aqua culture, so it’s neat to feature something that combines the two with this extreme house boat concept, the Trilobis 65.
Green Roofs? How About Green Walls! | EcoGeek | Walls, Water, Comment, Living, Summer
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Green Roofs are becoming blase, perhaps, as design moves into living walls. A number of the Solar Decathlon teams have incorporated some form of living wall -- think garden on the walls of the house. These walls help cool the house in the summer (reducing solar gain), water management (reduced storm water runoff as they take water from the roof), and have the potential for helping feed the residents (think tomatoes, grapes, herbs ...).
Teams with living walls include, among other
WattHead: All New Homes Should Be Zero-Net-Energy By 2020 Says California Utility Commission
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