http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/31/japanese-ecovillage-house-brings-nature-right-inside/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/31/japanese-ecovillage-house-brings-nature-right-inside/#comment-140184 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:17:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=44578#comment-140184 Looks like the usual Jap crap house, albeit with some attention to design. The “eco” label is just that. Japanese will buy almost anything if the ads “feel right.”

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/31/japanese-ecovillage-house-brings-nature-right-inside/#comment-140156 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:37:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=44578#comment-140156 Ecovillage? Not even close. Nothing eco about this development at all. Tons of concrete. Non permeable asphalt. Exposed power lines. Non green material used everywhere in construction. This was a top down ecovillage, driven by the local government in cohoots with the biggest local general contractor. What they consider eco is that each lot must have and use a small vegetable plot. That’s it. No mandatory solar panels or graywater systems. It’s an eye sore and a waste of public money. I know because I live here and I was in on the beginning, but got turned off by the bureaucratic take over of the design process.

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