My eco friendly dream is to have an eco friendly home. A building that works with the environment instead of against it. I'm currently designing the features I want to include into it. Weather it be a home that I will renovate or build from scratch everything will be 100% eco. I definitely want a green house/ green room which will either be attached to the house or separate so I can grow my own food. Solar panels on the roof are a must. With skylights, letting natural light in to the home. Ground heating, rain collecting for flushing toilets and watering plants. Wind turbines on the roof and maybe even extend it out into the back yard making a mini wind farm. My goal is to produce enough power from all these sources so that I no longer exist on the energy radar. Going off the grid is one of the top goals of this project. All materials will be recyclable or sustainable. This is a longer term goal and all depends on my financial situation. Too bad building eco isn't cheaper!

I've learned a lot so far from green / eco books i have purchased like cradle to cradle Remaking the Way We Make Things, Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions, Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a time, Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying, 365 Ways to Live Green: Your Everyday Guide to Saving the Environment. I have also purchased films like The 11th hour, and An inconvenient truth, and planet in peril that has boosted my motivation for doing all these things. I'm starting an eco site as well www.ecogreenglobe.com which connects people with eco web links to help them live a greener life. The things i do now since i don't have the money to build a home. I buy 100% eco friendly cleaning products from sun & earth, Bought a eco friendly push reel lawn mower instead of a gas mower (works quite well too!) changed all my bulbs to cfl's, changed my shower head to an eco friendly water saving one. I buy all recycled paper towels, toilet paper and purchase small gadgets like small solar panels to charge my cell phone, and ipod. I recycle 99% of all my garbage, i usually throw away 1% of actual garbage a week which is a biodegradable bag of about the size of my hand. Hopefully i wont even need to throw that out when i get my com poster. The things i hope to do yet is start a com poster, and collect rain water for maybe flushing toilets and or watering plants. There are hundreds of things we can do to live green and im trying every single one of them with all my heart. I just cant wait till i have the funds to build an eco home!

This is one of my top goals as an environmentalist i really want to replace my 2007 mazda 3 that gets about 24/32 mpg. Thats good but not good enough! I have a couple solutions that might interest some of you. I have a couple eco auto links to share with you all to help us tackle this goal.

The smart car is a compact vehicle that gets good millage is on the market right now.
The compressed air car from zeropollutionmotors.us is a car being made in Europe and hopefully will be mass produced by 2010. achieves over 100 gas-equivalent mpg and over 90 mph. They look funny, but if it means driving greener and more efficient i'm all for it!
If you guys have any other solutions let me know.

I have gone solar in a way. Well a way that i can afford for now. I have purchased a solaris solar panel to charge my cell phone and ipod. Works quite well. I also want to purchase a roll able solar panel for my laptop. As for my long term ultimate solar goal is to Build or renovate an eco home with solar panels on the roof producing either half or all of my power that i use for the home. I could take it further and say i want to buy so many panels that i want to be off the grid. or even create a mini solar farm in my backyard so i could help people in the neighborhood power their homes, or feed it back to the grid. Of course i do not have the funds to do this yet, but its a goal that will hopefully become a reality for me and others around the world. I hope they bring the prices down so we can afford them.

I would like to achieve my goal of alternative energy by purchasing a wind turbine for my home. One of my other goals is to build an eco home. Hopefully when that goal is completed i can produce it's power with the wind turbine. My ultimate wind goal is to have a small wind farm in my back yard to not only power my home , but feed it back to grid or to other homes in the neighborhood!

i would love to be able to grow my own natural/ organic food in my own garden instead of buying our poisonous food filled with pesticides and bad non eco friendly fertilizer. hopefully this will be a nice addition to my main goal which is to build an eco home.
I will keep you guys updated on my progress!

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