1. Design your own “Green” Home

2. Things to Consider What energy will you use/need?
Electricity
Heating/Cooling
Hot water
What materials will you use to build with?
How will you get water?
Cost (to build and to maintain)? Carbon-footprint?
Landscaping?

3. Things to Consider
Choose a location for your home and use the following website to determine the best renewable energy to use in that area:
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4. Questions to Ask What is a good design for our needs?
What are good sizes and proportions for rooms? What style do I want?
What problems do I have in my current house that I don't want to repeat?
Is that a good material, I've never heard of it?
Is landscaping included? Sod? Seed? mud and rocks? Slopes? Are landscape features guaranteed?
I really want this ________________in the house -- how do I get exactly that?

5. The “Big” Thing in Eco-Homes
Tree house
Earthship
Recycled Homes
Tiny Homes
Renewable Energy
Geothermal
Solar
Wind