Wired Magazine posted a brief description of an English eco-friendly subdivision that capitalizes on prefab construction to drive down cost ($118k+), construction time (five weeks!), and waste.

Offsite manufacturing of major components for these 145 homes makes it easier to use green materials, like insulation from recycled paper and lumber harvested from sustainably managed forests.

What else could you want? How about greater energy efficiency, better indoor air quality with good ventilation, and solar heating.

The author of Wired’s post would like to see some of these homes grace US shores. So would I. But we don’t need to ship the components from overseas to get the same benefits. Major green building conferences are filled with domestic manufacturers, products, and companies.

What US builder will take the lead in our new ecologically aware world? I look forward to finding out, soon.

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