Eco-Friendly

Today people are drawn to the idea of "Eco-friendly" design and modern innovation. Especially when it comes to their homes, and every other year on the national mall there is the Solar Decathlon were 20 Colleges and University design "Eco-Friendly" houses. People are attracted to this style because it is apart of our culture today to be less harmful to the environment. Houses like the Virginia Tech house has all the looks of a modern eco-house but still has all elements of a regular home.

In today's world environmentally friendly is how we are improving the quality of living just as people were doing in the early 1900's. They wanted to use new sciences of their time and the new technologies to improve the quality of living. They were working so hard to be modern because they were trying to establish who they were in the world. America was working so hard to be recognized as just as powerful as England. We wanted to make our own place in this new world of science and technology.




Picture one: http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/06/SD-Europe-Winner-Lumenhaus-18.jpg

Picture two: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2011/10/images/M_102511-unirel-solarhouseday.JPG

Picture Three: http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/PHOTO/SolarDecathlon/universityOfvirginia.jpg