All new housing in the UK is expected to meet a new set of standards by 2016. Treehugger has featured a couple of prototypes designs submitted by architects that attempt to meet the standard. See their entry on the zero-carbon Lighthouse, and the Sigma House. What's interesting about both--and particularly Sigma--is how closely they resemble (in function) vertically-oriented Earthships.More about Earthship systems here: water, electricity, sewage.
An Earthship 'energy roof.'
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