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- mattsaw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Nice, I wonder how much it costs to build something like that?
- iepurilah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The Santa Monica one is really cool
- driftin079, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Good point. We recycle everything else, right? The trend right now to focus on new buildings being environmentally friendly, and unfortunately we are creatures of trends. The ability to retrofit an existing home is actually pretty accessible, though maybe not accessible enough. I live down the road from a future community that promises to be one of the first LEED accredited planned communities in the country, and while that's great, it seems to be missing the point at a broader scale. We can frame our houses with reclaimed wood, insulated them with recycled denim, power them with solar panels, but as long as we keep consuming the one of the most valuable resources - land - the term "green" is subjective.
- hockachu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Coral Cache caught it with images, duggmirror missed the images.
http://freshome.com.nyud.net:8080/2007/09/12/top-5-green-homes-with-a-modern-look/ - parax, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Meh, misleading article I'd prefer an article that covered only homes that are finished, not homes that are planned, still under construction, or not yet unveiled. I don't care what the planned features are, anyone can write up an extraordinary sounding list of planned features.
- Varadinumdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2stylish wood houses!
- mahdaeng, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I thought the treehuggers didn't want us using wood.
- Rikushix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Dead already?
- sfacets, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2dead... anyone manage to mirror?
- balibones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love the look of Rammed Earth and Cast Earth houses. The walls have that textured appearance of Sandstone but for a fraction of the price. They're well insulated and last for centuries.
- nicklzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1how are they supposed to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?
- jalagl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I LOVE the LivingHomes house in Santa Monica. It was featured in Dwell some time ago, and it has all the features I want in my future house:
- A large, uninterrupted space on the lower floor
- High ceilings
- Kitchen, dining table and living room in one space
- The pergolas and small "balconies"
- Mostly glass exterior
And it is energy efficient as a bonus!! - driftin079, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, while the up-front cost per square foot is higher, LEED accredited buildings can make up the difference in the long run in the form of lower energy bills. Most of these being in California, they're probably easily over $500 a square foot.
- Flanker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What the heck are you going to do with a rainwater reclamation system when there's no rain in SoCal?
- mahdaeng, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I didn't see any green houses - just brown and gray ones.
- Sippi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The last home
2,038sq.ft x $117 = $238,446
So between hidden costs and markup it should run around 250-275k - Funguar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3They all look like they're from the 80's.
- ronjohn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What about if it catches fire?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Which in terms of my home over 30 years at 7% interest is a whopping $3567/mo.
Building a "green" home is, in fact, not very green at all. There are plenty of homes already built that with a much smaller investment can be made green.
I outfitted my home with 8 solar panels, one wind turbine, 4 rain barrels and re-insulated the whole house. I also switched all but two lights over to CFLs (the other two are on dimmers so CFLs are not viable for that purpose). I also added a wood burning fireplace in my mater bedroom and my entertainment room (in addition to the original in the living room).
The overall cost was approximately $32,000 over a 3 year span of work. I no longer pay an electric bill (or at least haven't in 2 years) and my gas bill (stove because I can't stand cooking on electric and furnace) is always under $50/mo since I now heat my house with the fireplaces for the most part.
On the other hand, I do burn about 3 cords of wood per year so that kind of defeats the whole 'green' thing.
At any rate, when you just keep building new homes rather than retrofitting homes that already exist it seems you are only contributing to the problem even more no matter how "environmentally friendly" your home will be once it is up. - manuelflury, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Top 5 for USA, it it ?
- blusky75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I dunno...the homes do look great and may be green from an energy/materials perspective, but it seems to me that these buildings eat up more real estate than they should. There is still the issue of urban sprawl. We should be building up, not out.
- blsdavecc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I am finally going to do to you what you do to everyone else. Maybe this way you will be able to see how dumb you sound.....Ready?.....Is that supposed to be a sarcastic comment? Man you are so stupid! It is obvious that they are not talking about the color of the houses, Man you are a real idiot!........I hope this helped you to finally realize how mundane and slow witted your comments sound. And its not just this one its everyone. Have a nice day.
- ellabee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1OK. Those houses are just fugly. Sorry, but they are.
- elvisjulep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0They all look like boxes. I was hoping for something out of Blade Runner or the Jetsons.
- darkjedi26, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Works fine for me. I have heard other people saying it doesn't work in IE. Works good for me in firefox.
- Sayjumner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It would be nice to see more green solutions like this that would work for my climate in Central NY
- VintageMud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That one looks a lot like the house on the TV show "Shark" (the show about the high profile crimes DA lawyer)
- latino, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1site is down, guess you guys really liked it :))
- bylle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0has this not been on digg before?
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