Eco homes are gaining in number and significance. They can be old buildings that have been renovated to include environmentally-friendly features or brand new purpose-built houses. Eco homes can be pretty ordinary looking or somewhat fantastical. Let's take a look at some.
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Amazingly rustic! Eco homes use environmentally-friendly materials inside and out. Here the floors are made from earth and sealed with linseed oil and beeswax.
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Ecological and friendly architecture can be absolutely stunning.
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An earth-sheltered house in Wales, UK with a view of the coast.
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View the stars and the lush greenery that surrounds the grounds from your very own tree house.
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This stunning eco house is in Sun City, Latvia.
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If you're going to go eco-friendly, you can make it magnificent, I guess.
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Self-built by Nick Middleton on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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You could have several micro homes in different locations and live between them all.
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The C3 is a trailblazing modern prefab home that ushers in a new approach to city dwellings.
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This home is made from two corrugated grain silos!
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The current owners of this eco-home built this on the site of the house they had previously lived in for 15 years.
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The iconic mobile home gets a serious co makeover. The new Volkswagen Microbus is completely modern in its environmental consciousness. The new VW bus is a bio-diesel hybrid.
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Straw bales are a seriously eco-friendly construction material.
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Environmentally friendly houses like this mobile home remodel using papercrete and old tires is a great example of the possibilities in green construction.
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At the confluence of rural farm land and native forest in an urban center, Tryon Living Community Farm demonstrates how sustainable living is achieved.
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Sunny Australia is the ideal place for solar powered homes.
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Could you live in a shipping container?
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This wooden home's pitched roof functions like a wind sail to make air flow in one direction and capture rainwater for storage.
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Owned by Jeni Gray of the blog "Diary of the New Pioneer".
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This is the sort of house that always appears in Californian beach towns in the movies.
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A thoroughly modern house with Art Nouveau styling.
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Tiny self-sufficient house operates off-grid in any locale.
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If one shipping container is not big enough, pile a few together.
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Who wouldn't love an interior like this?
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Does a hobbit live here?
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This prefab in Arizona was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and uses solar panels and rainwater collection.
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An amazing home that connects with nature
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I love cool eco-homes in huge cities.
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The term passive house refers to a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling.
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Homes don't get much greener than 'That Roundhouse' built by Tony Wrench. Made of wood, a straw insulated turf roof and recycled materials, it relies on solar power and a wind turbine for electricity, and has a compost toilet.
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This prefab home is an experiment in all things efficient.
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It may be eco-friendly, but it isn't wallet friendly. This eco-house in Arundel, England would set you back £3.25 million ($5 million) - WOW!
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Who wouldn't mind coming home to this?
Really cool eco homes have living roofs.
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Looks darned good for a prototype.
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Simply lovely.
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Cute and compact.
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Where the indoors really does meet the outdoors.
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Did you know there are companies that can build a pre-fab home with green materials and deliver it to your build site?
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Floating eco homes have a seriously reduced carbon footprint
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Can you believe this amazing passive home in freezing Wisconsin uses less energy than a hair dryer?
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Need a place to reconnect with nature? How about a low-impact tree house cabin?
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I love the slate gray color - it's so calming.
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The step by step building of an eco house - made with bottles, soda cans, old tires and cement.
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An American female architect built her dream home for $11k after going through a divorce and foreclosure.
Let's hear from you now! How environmentally friendly is your home?