Jim Trout’s the friend, he’s a good guy. Happens to be running for State Senate. Go Trout.

He’s really made this his opus, though, from using the trees they cut as lumber for the houses themselves, to communal wells to fuel geothermal HVAC and hot water, green building materials and construction best methods, and recycling all the construction debris he can.

These cottages are closer to the New England ideal than usually found in Missouri. But green. Geothermal HVAC and hot water, green building materials, best methods green construction, each cottage will have a carbon footprint about half of a typical home that size.

Jim’s estimated that’s the equivalent, every year, of another 30,000 fully mature trees scrubbing our air. I don’t know of another project this size, this green, anywhere else in the country, do you?

It’s being built on a “green” golf course, too. The owner had Jim build the clubhouse and conference center ten years ago, using the same geothermal technology at a time when they had to find someone to custom build the machinery.

It’s an opus, that’s for sure. But what it says is that it can be done, and ought to be done lots more than it is, because it’s not painful, it’s practical.

This one also happens to be gorgeous.

http://www.thegreensatfoxrun.com

It’s a big deal.

Jim Trout’s the friend, he’s a good guy. Happens to be running for State Senate. Go Trout.

He’s really made this his opus, though, from using the trees they cut as lumber for the houses themselves, to communal wells to fuel geothermal HVAC and hot water, green building materials and construction best methods, and recycling all the construction debris he can.

These cottages are closer to the New England ideal than usually found in Missouri. But green. Geothermal HVAC and hot water, green building materials, best methods green construction, each cottage will have a carbon footprint about half of a typical home that size.

Jim’s estimated that’s the equivalent, every year, of another 30,000 fully mature trees scrubbing our air. I don’t know of another project this size, this green, anywhere else in the country, do you?

It’s being built on a “green” golf course, too. The owner had Jim build the clubhouse and conference center ten years ago, using the same geothermal technology at a time when they had to find someone to custom build the machinery.

It’s an opus, that’s for sure. But what it says is that it can be done, and ought to be done lots more than it is, because it’s not painful, it’s practical.

This one also happens to be gorgeous.

http://www.thegreensatfoxrun.com

It’s a big deal.