Link: http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/081710_sunshower.cfm

Tulane University Professor Judith Kinnard and Assistant Professor of Architecture Tiffany Lin have designed an award winning off grid home.
This two bedroom, two bath house is designed to be able to be function without water or electrical hook-ups.

A simple earth friendly design that can provide housing in areas of natural disaster. Congratulations Judith and Tiffany.

Link: http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2010/09/07/faculty-member%E2%80%99s-home-grabs-green-attention/

Yes we can design smarter, cleaner homes that generate power to heat themselves, make their own electricity and recycle the water that they use. We are inspired by the smart design that went into creating this delightful home. It is creative design pioneers like John Sagebiel and his wife Mary Cablk that are showing us the way to a sustainable future.

Cheers John and Mary..we celebrate you and thank you for bringing this vision to fruition. May there be many others who follow.

After 18 years of dreaming, planning, calculating and saving this home's solar array turned out to be a final gift of love this man gave to his wife. Arnie Garlick spent much of his life planning for his home to be a net zero energy home and lived long enough to see the installation completed. Three weeks later he succumbed to lung cancer.

The solar array will continue to provide energy and be a tangible legacy that his widow Cheri can enjoy for the next twenty five years.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/greenproperty/5603765/Energy-efficiency-in-homes-overseas-sun-lovers-get-the-green-light.html

Ahh... the sunny coast of Spain. Encouraging signs for Solar Energy come from all corners of the globe.