Ecohouse

This article is about a type of house. For other uses, see Ecohouse (disambiguation).

An ecohouse (or eco home) is an environmentally low-impact home designed and built using materials and technology that reduces its carbon footprint and lowers its energy needs.

This includes:

• Glass that has two or three layers with gas in between to prevent heat loss
• Solar panels
• Geothermal heating and growing plants on the roof to regulate temperature, quieten the house, and to produce oxygen
• A wind turbine for when there is wind, and a battery if not

§See also

• Green building
• Energy-plus-house
• Low-energy house