This house in Madrid, Spain has a green roof. Literally. This green roof reduces the heat, provides a habitat for animals and filters rainwater runoff. This house also has solar thermal hot water tubes for domestic hot water. This house is awesome! It is very innovative and modern yet very "green" both environmentally and literally. However along with all the environmental benefits of this house, it was most likely extremely expensive. I like the concept of this house, but do not know about the practicality of it.
I think that sounds pretty cool. I'd love to live in a house that was totally eco-friendly, but it would be really expensive like you said..I think houses like the one you posted and other eco-friendly homes should be less expensive than "normal" houses since they have less of a carbon footprint.
ReplyDeleteNew York City also has plans to use this green roof concept to reduce runoff, see my article for more information "New York City's green roof initiative"
ReplyDeletehaha adam, i think we both posted the same one.
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