My Green House

Reason:
I’m making a green house because I feel that one day we will run out of these non-renewable power sources, and we should start making new ways to power our homes.

Green:
The way my house is green is that I collect water and send it through a filter system, then re-use it for showers and stuff like that. I also have many solar panels to power mostly every thing in my house. The last thing I have to make my house green is the geo-thermal concrete walls that keep the heat in.

Water use
I have only one way to get water and that’s to collect the rain water that comes off the roof and send it through a filter. Then it goes partly into a solar-heated box that heats it. Then the heated water circulates through tubes in the floor and ceiling to heat the house. An underground holding area helps cool the water to keep it cool in the summer.

Location:
Mostly all the windows are facing the south but there are also solar panels on the roof facing south too.
The front of the house is facing towards the north. I also have some pillar-type platforms that stick out of the house that help get the water to the underground filter system.

Materials:
All the walls on the outside are insulated geo-thermal concrete panels. On the inside there are compressed straw walls to keep the heat in. They are covered with some painted cardboard.. There are also recycled wooden floors covering the whole inside of the house.

Design:
Even though the house is big, it creates all the energy that I need to use through renewable resources. It also looks cool on the outside with the huge concrete formations that make the house look kind of like a medieval castle.