Biggest Green Homes In The World: Pretty Counterintuitive

The U.K. has the most expensive green home that has ever actually been sold: the Orchid House broke records at �7.2 million, or $14.2 million USD. This house, however, isn't nearly as large as the others on this list at 2400 square feet. The cost works out to roughly $6,000 per square foot. Set to be built on the Lower Mill Estate, a 450-acre nature preserve in Cotswold, the home features cutting-edge design and aims to generate more energy than it consumes through geothermal heating. The form is created using laminated veneer lumber clad with timber shingles imprinted with a camouflage pattern. The buyer chose to remain anonymous.

The developers responsible for building 995 Longbow Place in Larkspur, Colorado proudly call this 9,800 square foot home "one of the greenest luxury homes ever built." Somehow, they see this home as having a "small footprint" despite its size and a utility bill that, despite being helped out by solar panels, costs a paltry $350 per month. In a press release, Legendary Properties boasts, "Four additional solar electric panels produce enough electricity to run the home's six refrigerators." Recycled and reclaimed wood, non-toxic blow-in insulation and low VOC finishes round out the green aspects of the home, and the asking price when it was up for sale last fall was a mere $4.5 million.

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Comments

[EcoAussie]

Very nice!

[chris2fer]

Who killed the electric car? General Motors the same people that want 25 billion.

[Semaj51]

The current fad for the affluent is "being greener" than their friends, no matter how ridicious.

[magicmary]

As much as I want the green revolution to catch up to the guy who lives between Bono and the kid with the dreads and peruvian knit wool hat that your daughter brought home, sometimes you have to start with the well off. They can afford to put it all together and create models for what works that inspire other architects and designers. This is how it's always been in history. First it was great cathedrals and palaces using the latest in architecture and design and then came everyone else copying those designs on a small scale. The difference is that we need to provide the average income person with tax credits or some kind of stimulus so they adapt those ideas into their own living situations so that the synergistic effect helps the planet.
But also, we need to get after the energy companies to change how they get energy to sell. We have to get after Cities that build their sense of identity around sucking energy like Las Vegas..

[1rewd1]

"Green" is for the affluent ... this is new news?

[KillTheMessenger]

This isn't green. This is greenwashing.

[1rewd1]

OIC ... so there's an official square foot limit to be officially green?

[SOLERSO68]

It was bob geldolf or roger waters or bono, ill bet a months pay.

[BlueZoo]

Bono can't afford to live in England. Taxes are too high. Trust me when I saw there are just as many zillionaire wingnuts in England, percentagewise, as there are here and their names aren't recognizable.

[KillTheMessenger]

Homer Simpson : "D'oh!"