Best Green Home Tips » demonstration green home http://www.bestgreenhometips.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:20:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 New one-of-a-kind Living Green House http://www.bestgreenhometips.com/2009/06/new-one-of-a-kind-living-green-house/ http://www.bestgreenhometips.com/2009/06/new-one-of-a-kind-living-green-house/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:08:50 +0000 Jennifer http://www.bestgreenhometips.com/?p=1171 There’s a brand new beautiful Living Green House just opened this last week at the Virginia Living Museum. The home was constructed as a permanent eco-showcase, in order to show people various designs, techniques and materials used in earth-friendly building. According the Baltimore Sun, “The demonstration house is one of the first anywhere in the United States — and the only one of its kind in Virginia.”

[image via Virginia Living Museum]

This gorgeous, 650 sq ft home is an amazing example of green building. Features include the following:

  • A small size (and thus small footprint).
  • Recycled building materials, including salvaged lumber and wood-like siding made from recycled paper.
  • PVC piping alternatives.
  • Green roofs.
  • Solar aspects a plenty, like solar photovoltaic panels, a solar water heater, passive solar heating and more.
  • Rain barrels and cisterns.
  • Geothermal heat pump and cooling unit.
  • And more…

The Baltimore Sun has an amazing image gallery and article about the house. My favorite image from the Sun is the killer solar-powered water pump below.

[image via Baltimore Sun]

Check out the house specs at Living Green House or make plans to visit. I’d really love to go. It sounds awesome. Alas, I live in far away Oregon, so a trip to Newport News is a little out of my way right now.

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