If money wasn't a problem - what green stuff would you have?

[Katymac]

I'd have
Wood fired central heating
Grey water recycling
Rain water harvesting
An electric people carrier
PV Solar panels
Passive solar panels for hot water


I'm sure I could think of some more I'd like

How about you?

[notasheep]

A house built by The Centre for Alternative Technology

[Pruni]

I'd have sheep's wool insulation on every surface
Triple glazing
Solar-powered underfloor heating (is that even possible? lol)
My own hot spring system for all hot water needs (I actually know someone who has this, not in the uk obv, but have yet to build the house next to it)
Oh god I'd have the lot

[JoolsToo]

a grass skirt

[moondog]

Oxen powered water wheel
Grape press
Solar operated helicopter

[Katymac]

Nice

I'd like more (& better insulation) & argon filled triple glazed windows (like they fit in Sweden as standard)

[moondog]

Where is hot spring Pruni?
We have hot springs in UK.
Think of Bath!
I would bloody love to take the waters.

[Katymac]

Pruni - you'd be better with a ground pump thingie for your underfloor heating (very efficient - might be worth costing it)

[Frizbe]

Solar Pannels, Wind Turbine, Reed/willow beds, water harvesting/re cycling too! I'd probably re design the house to incorporate a decent central chimney/fire that would heat the rest of the place too....It'd be lovely ......

[LotosEater]

notasheep - would your house have some of those non-water toilets as well?

[Katymac]

I have a central chimney (lovely it is too)

[FillyjonktheSnibbet]

i'd have a rammed earth, passively solar heated burrow house with (obviously) a turf roof, on my biodynamic smallholding.

[lunavix]

gosh it'd be lovely wouldn't it. I'd have the works too, plus enough money to comfortably eat entirely organic food (while having my own huge organic veggie patch a la It's not easy being green) and all ethical clothing for the whole family... I can dream!

[whowoulddoit]

ahh, this is easy..

solar panels
turf roof
wooden a frame stilt house built by ben law
reclaimed inetrior
straw bale walls...
i have to stop soon, this is starting to make me feel very sad about not having any money!

i would settle for one of those folding whellbarrows and a water butt...
or ben law...

[Katymac]

With a rainwater irrigation system powered by a solar cell so that the plants get watered automatically in the hot weather

[Pruni]

Vancouver Island, md.
They have a system of hot springs that gets cooler as it nears the ocean.
Sounds effin amazing.
Is Bath our one and only hot spring?

[lunavix]

I'd be happy with a water butt, eglu (I'm not entirely sure about the eco-friendliness of the plastic housing, but I'd like my own pair of organic chickens) and like I said to comfortably afford solely organic food.

[notasheep]

lotoseater-dp likes to pee in the garden,normally on the compost mound.
Not good on links,but CAT is where its at.
Turf roofs have reached here and some of the locals live in tippees

[Katymac]

Isn't bath kinda luke warm? or is it really hot

[LotosEater]

so who's up for \link{http://www.cat.org.uk/information/catinfo.tmpl?subdir=search&command=search&db=../information/catinfo.db&eqSKUdatarq=InfoSheet_CompostingToilets&start=1\composting toilets} ?

[FillyjonktheSnibbet]

actually, might employ someone to grow and raise livestock on my biodynamic farm, thus ensuring local jobs.

would it be green to buy a whole island for myself?

[LotosEater]

actually notsheep I agree with you - CAT is great place

OK the rest of you, loads of green ideas \link{http://www.cat.org.uk/index.tmpl?refer=index&init=1\here}

[notasheep]

On a more serious but still environment friendly way last year my girlfriend had a cardboard coffin

[beetle73]

Rubbish-sorting chutes leading from the kitchen to the relevant bins.

[Katymac]

Well I have a recycling cupboad and a husband....does that count?

[beetle73]

Well, a recycling cupboard would do for me if I could also have your husband instead of my own environmentally negligent one.