Sunday, September 24, 2006

Green Homes Tour, Saturday, Sept 16th

Last Saturday, Dan and I had the opportunity to go on the Green Homes Tour, sponsored by a company here called the Environmental Building Center. We spent the whole day biking around the city, following our map to the most interesting houses we could find. Here is a sample of what we saw:

This house was tucked off the road with a beautiful garden, and it was small and very cozy. The homeowners are an older couple, and they build their house essentially in their daughter's family's backyard.









A beautiful flower in their garden:










The homeowners of this house are a pair of architects. They designed the house together, and it has a very modern feel to it. The two images are the actual house and a scale model of the house, which the homeowners have on display in the living room.
























Plenty of "green" toilet paper on hand!












These are "green town homes." When we walked inside, since we had to take our shoes off, I immediately felt warmth coming from the radient floors. They are sort of a concrete material, and underneath the floor they have hot-water pipes running through, naturally warming the whole house.









Dan and I after 20+ miles of biking around the city!!!

4 comments:

Jackie said...

I don't have any witty or useful comments. But what a cool tour. You look very happy in the pics.

Jackie said...

And, after reading my post, I meant to say that I wanted to write SOMETHING even if I didn't have anything particularly interesting to say... that way you'll keep those awesome pictures and posts coming. :)

TerraGold said...

jackie,

you are my most faithful blogging companion!!! i could not blog without you!!

love
julia

Anonymous said...

What makes those homes green? Do you have to put saw dust in the bowl to keep it FRESH?