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Nuvo, we try to keep up with the latest ethical concerns, the environmentally friendly practices. To begin, however, there are many “green” fraud “present. In Green cars and food, eco-friendly mobile phones, each got its own plan to save the world. The difference is a great way to make houses energy much more efficiently. Sometimes, however, … The plan to rescue the world could end

as a bit strange ….

Glass Bottle House

What would you do with empty bottles of embalming fluid 500 000 ? Given this dilemma, David H. Brown has decided to build a house. When he guessed withdrawn from the company’s funeral in 1952 after 35 years (I) Panel of large, square bottles, he began work on his bizarre folly.>

Now, the house itself will be incredibly energy efficient to be, it requires only a single heater, small heater in the winter and no air conditioning all summer. And at 1,200 square meters of floor space and a pretty good size. The walls were with a single layer of bottles, which are set short and truncated. lamellae of wood placed between bottlenecks, and reinforced with concrete and wire that supports the inner wall of cedar planks, which nailed vertically. All this leads to a strong, weatherproof and unique home. Looking at the photos if you can find the origin of the nasty little bottles themselves, it looks like a nice place pleasant.

straw bale houses

Houses made of straw bales are not new. In fact, people build houses out of straw, since before the beginning of the story. But recently, the technique of the second chance. New and improved methods to enable construction of a safe, inexpensive, robust , efficient and attractive home. Unless, of course, you have hay fever.>

Weil says the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, is it. In a recent study had the following CMHC to say about the energy efficiency of straw bale houses:

“The straw bale house uses more than 20 percent less space heating energy compared to traditional real estate model. Part of this may overestimate the under-ventilation of straw bale homes and a small tendency for the model to the energy use in conventional homes. However, show the magnitude of savings and the (consistency 9 of 11 houses), straw bale houses in this survey require much less space heating energy comparable conventional homes. “

Foam Domes

It is impossible to argue with him made the Japanese, who have for many strange. They are some of the most bizarre developments of the case in the world and is one of them. Just Now you can a kit that allows you to practice and establish a handful of your friends to buy 146 square meter dome entirely of elongation of polystyrene foam. It is not only waterproof, rot and termite resistant, it is also extremely resistant to earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons. It seems that the future of the housing is much like a cross between an igloo and an ice cream cake.>

Well for starters you can build a house without killing the trees. They are ridiculously efficient and sustainable. But much of what makes a sustainable cost. One kit go for about 000 €. Think you can a multi-dome for less than a third receive average cost for a house in Canada. You only need to reconcile with the concept of life in a giant igloo pink.

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