green home designs Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:43:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 NexusHaus Carbon Neutral Houses to be Built in Austin, TX https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:43:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56967 The city of Austin, TX welcomes 100 new citizens every single day. That has caused a significant increase in the resources needed to keep the city running, so the Austin Community Desing & Development Center’s Alley Flat Initiative has been hard at work to design a carbon neutral house to alleviate some of the energy […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/feed/ 0 56967 Solar Powered Ovens Made From Pizza Boxes Ehxibited on NYC Streets https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-pizza-box-20110530/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-pizza-box-20110530/#respond Mon, 30 May 2011 17:43:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18875 While the green technology might still be a new thing for many, something our mind needs to get adjusted with, some other people already understood that this is their future. Or at least that's what students from 2 high schools in New York proved last week at the Union Square Greenmarket, when they showed up with a couple of green solar powered ovens.

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