NEWS: Sustainable Housing Built on... Spinach?

GEEK: Sustainable Housing Built on... Spinach?

Talk about your "green architecture"... The winner of this year's Cradle to Cradle International Design Competition is a house that is built around spinach. This example of sustainable development creates as much energy as it uses, recycles water, uses renewable-resource building material, and is designed around building a sense of community between the people living in and around the complex.

FutureFeeder.com summarizes the design:

No word, however, on cost and actual feasability of the project. Green design projects like this, however faniciful they might seem at the moment, may be where we're headed in the future out of necessity.

the house that popeye built.

Interesting. The low-tech design features, at least, ought to become commoner. And I like the "Ideas" page.

That's awesome I like the idea that excess power is shared with neighbours.

This is like the cool stuff that I imagine for the future: Buildings that collect and reprocess water, energy gathered from people just walking up and down the street, and roads that blend into instead of rip apart the scenery. I really hope this stuff becomes commonplace before I die.

Neat article, thanks.

Well blow me down!

oh crap i am allergic to the soy foam walls haha

food allergies dictating my lifestyle, ^2!

biomimicry rules, this is a cool idea!

does it also make feta cheese so you can make omelettes with the walls?

that is amazing..i like to hear about using existing materials within a house..solar energy has not been tapped enough either

Wife to husband. Look after the house, I will only be away one week.

Husabnd to Wife. Honey, the house was eaten by locusts!