green housing Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:53:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 WaterNest Floating Renewable House Now for Sale https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-nest-for-sale/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-nest-for-sale/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:19:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55642 A new abode is available for people who want to be environmentally friendly, but still want to live luxuriously. The WaterNest 100 is a floating house that is built out of recycled and renewable materials, primarily recycled wood and aluminum, and is 98% recyclable itself. It also runs entirely off of 60 sqm of photovoltaic […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-nest-for-sale/feed/ 0 55642 DoE’s Solar Decathlon Competition Gathers Green Housing Designers From Across The Globe https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-decathlon-competition-gathers-green-housing-designers-across-globe-20131001/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-decathlon-competition-gathers-green-housing-designers-across-globe-20131001/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:01:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42115 In the coming two weeks, the Department of Energy is hosting the Solar Decathlon competition in Orange County Great Park, California. Teams from all over the world,  gather to show their creative solar-powered housing designs, which should be affordable, attractive, comfortable, and produce enough or more energy to power all household appliances, heating and hot […]

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