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2. Earthship - Wikipedia

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   The home, which was owned by Kevan and Gillian Trott, was built in April 2007 by Kevan, Mike Reynolds and an Earthship Crew from Taos, it was sold to a family in 2014. The design was modified for a European climate and is seen as the first of many for the European arena. It is currently used as a holiday home for eco-tourists. [24]

3. Off-the-grid - Wikipedia

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   Off-the-grid or off-grid is a characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle [1] designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. The term "off-the-grid" traditionally refers to not being connected to the electrical grid , but can also include other utilities like water, gas, and sewer systems, and can scale from ...

4. New Mexico's Earthship Homes Are a World Away From ... - AOL

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   At sunset, the desert of Taos, N.M., spreads out like a gleaming sheet of gold stretched flat across the earth.A harsh, amber sun sheds light over the largely barren landscape framed by distant ...

5. Sustainable architecture - Wikipedia

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   Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The idea of sustainability , or ecological design , is to ensure that use of currently available resources does not end up having detrimental effects to a future society's well-being or making it ...

6. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   Passive solar building construction may not be difficult or expensive (using off-the-shelf existing materials and technology), but the scientific passive solar building design is a non-trivial engineering effort that requires significant study of previous counter-intuitive lessons learned, and time to enter, evaluate, and iteratively refine the ...

7. Ecohouse - Wikipedia

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   According to SmartMarket Report, around two-thirds of Eco-house owners, who built their own homes, had an annual budget of over $50,000. This above average income and the freedom in building their own design, furniture, and materials for their Eco-houses attributes to the addition of more expensive features, but this does not mean there are not ...

8. Zero-energy building - Wikipedia

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   A Zero-Energy Building (ZEB), also known as a Net Zero-Energy (NZE) building, is a building with net zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site [1] [2] or in other definitions by renewable energy sources offsite, using technology such as heat pumps, high efficiency windows ...

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