7000 Sq. Feet and No Carbon Footprint?

It is called The Eco Home, it is 7000 square feet with a zero carbon footprint and almost zero operating costs. This beautiful work of art is designed by Diseño Earle will be built in Southern Spain by 2009. According to Diseño Earle the house/villa will be built with 75% less waste than a traditional design and operate 80% more efficiently than a similar sized home.

This is one amazing eco-house with the key environmental friendly aspect being the massive solar panels built into the wing like roof. But the Diseño Earle team didn’t stop there, the house also features a rainwater reclamation system, grey water recycling, radiant heating system powered by the solar panels, geothermal energy for back-up cooling and heating, low VOC paints, LED lights, environmentally-sensitive smart glass and abundant natural lighting, and energy and water efficient appliances.

Another interesting detail of the house is that the living room sits above 30cm deep canal of water which is part of the cooling system. It looks like the Spanish team has ironed out all the details in order to produce a zero carbon footprint house.

Here are some more pictures:

Original story via Jetson Green.

The GGG View

I would love to see more of this style house being built in the US. US home builders need to take some notes, this is a true environmentally friendly house. I am not sure about supposed “eco houses” in other parts of the US but here in northern California (one of the greenest states) home builders slap on a few solar panels on the roof, install a couple CFL lights inside and call it an Eco House.

That is bs in my mind, if you are going to call it an Eco House then at least set some standards and say it is at least 60 or 70% self sufficient. A row solar panels depending on the size combined with no other energy efficient aspects will produce maybe 15 to 25% of a house’s energy usage.

NYC Yellow Cabs Being Repainted Green?

Ok well not really….but maybe someday. Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing a different color than yellow. Anyways NYC is speeding up the process of turning their yellow taxi fleet to hybrids at the rate of 300 cars a month. There are already over 1,000 hybrid taxis running around NYC as I type this. The NY Taxi and Limo Commission said that its entire fleet of taxis will be all-hybrid by 2012.

This is another “green” initiative of Mayor/Billionaire/Political Party Flip Flopper Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Bloomberg has said he wants accomplish 127 “green” initiatives before his final term is up in 2010. Thats pretty ambitious Mr. Bloomberg, lets hope you don’t change your mind down the road. By the way for those who were wondering Mr. Bloomberg is the 25th richest person in the United States according to Forbes’s 2007 list.

Original Article via Reuters.

The GGG View (With almost every post we will give our readers our view on the post subject and how it could effect you as an everyday consumer)

This is a good thing for all parties involved. The taxi drivers save tons of money on gas per year, automakers like Ford and Chevy get some much needed revenue and NYC becomes a little less polluted which it needs given the fact it is currently 8th the list of most polluted (ozone) cities in America. And who knows maybe more money in the drivers pockets equals lower fares for us the passengers….ya highly doubt that but who knows.

A Little About GGG

So new readers of our blog are probably like what the heck is GGG?

Is it some weird tree hugger site? No there are no tree huggers here. (No offense real tree huggers.)

Is it a blog written by a bunch of nerds? Well kind of.

Is it another “green” blog that gives useless information on eco-products people will never use? Not at all.

Here at GGG we aim to deliver our readers with valuable information regarding everything in the “green” world. We get a lot of hands on access to the latest and greatest green products so if you want to know what the latest energy bill that just got passed is all about or you are looking for information regarding solar power we have you covered.

Now the “green” movement used to be a one of those things that only dedicated environmentalists cared about. Well things have kind of changed just a little…ok well a lot. Today everyone is talking about going green, everyone wants to be energy efficient, everyone wants to have a smaller “carbon footprint”, and now everyone gets all excited when Jennifer Anniston buys a green house or Ms. Alba buys a Toyota Prius.

Tune into GGG everyday so next time your co-workers are talking about latest Telsa model you know what the heck they are talking about.