Kick off the decade in style with the latest technology and other elements you may be seeing a lot more of soon
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Sustainable features and benefits will gain more popularity in the 2020s as more realistic and meaningful design guidelines. Timeless conservation that teaches new generations recycling values and caring for fellow species.
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Solar Panels. Especially if your electricity comes from coal.
Induction cook tops.
Adding insulation which also improves air sealing
Energy recovery ventilators
Reused furniture and kitchen cabinets
Vernacular techniques you would have found in your great, great granmother’s home.
Chamber pots
Zero waste
Farmer’s market unpackaged and labeled foods
No new clothes.
No single use plastic
No car
Very little animal protein
Walkable neighborhood
Bicycle friendly roads
Pollinator gardens
Vegetable gardens
Downsizing
Moving back to the urban core
Rain barrels
Tiny home communities
Solar cookers
Indoor air quality monitors
7. Nest Thermostat – Does everything they say and you are in complete control! You can’t save what you don’t measure and this makes it fun https://nest.com
Smart thermostats
Energy recording monitors
Low flow water fixtures
Electric cars
Water treatment to tertiary standards
Pellet stoves
9. Waste sawdust pellet grill – You wouldn’t believe it but sawdust is considered a renewable energy resource by the U.S. Green Building Council, we have a pellet stove in our LEED Platinum office. And you get the hardwood smell for free. Check out Trager Grills http://www.traegergrills.com/shop/detail/BBQ055#.VHZzTIfCAvY
Pellet grills
Composting
Composting Toilets