MNN - Mother Nature Network

do what they can to stop the death of this poor planet and her inhabitants. It is irresponsible to say that this effort is not good enough. We need to encourage, not disCOURAGE. Adding to what Dale pointed out in reply to "what are these things made of?"--also, the roofs are made to last a long time, and, being metal, they are very recyclable, Also, they GATHER WATER, rather than the current miles of mobile home and regular homes' roof tops which send the water running over parking lots to gather up tons of waste oil, petrochemicals, VOCs, PCBs, detergents and lawn herbicides and pesticides--all of this to be dumped into our much over burdened storm sewer systems so that it can be dumped right into our streams, creeks, rivers and oceans--to kill and injure more and more of our wildlife and habitats. What's more: the roofs are Solar-Ready, AND you can go Solar by adding it right there at the factory, IN your mortgage! Also, folks who invest in these, are not likely to then cement or pave over their yards--but to use gravel and permeable sidewalk materials instead, if at all. The Clayton i-homes are just the sort of project we need to encourage and support. As for the financing, banks are already financing green homes at the considerably higher square footage to cost already. I expect they will here as well. It is not the square footage of a home which determines the price of a home anyway: it is the value that consumers place on it combined with the value of the materials, design, and the inherent value (and savings) of the home by the market which consumes them. Is this not so with organic cotton, hemp, humane labor-made, recycled, etc products? So many of us have become willing to pay more for what we value in saving the earth and her inhabitants: THAT's what's creating this market. So, if we just knock it for not being enough (sure they could have made it more green, even with a zero imprint as "Anonymous" demanded above--but then WHO could afford to do much better than they could have done otherwise?!) As for blue collar workers and the relatively USA poor--who still can get a low mortgage--in my experience, more of them care enough to sacrifice for others (as being Green is in the immediate sense) than are many others. I think that the lovely i home shapes--created by the method for saving water--as well as the nice, big e windows (which make living in smaller square and cubic space--one of the GREENest things we can do--much, much more do-able and enjoyable. Instead of jabbing your jokes, Windman, why not have written something about how affordable it can be for many who invest in these to add a small wind-turbine to their home--or suggest that the makers offer them as an option in addition to the solar? I would like to have read about THAT. Let's not destroy the efforts of others as "not enough"--that only makes things so much the Worse! Offer help or just keep your peace (or try to get some peace, in the same amount of time it took to try to knock this--or other--projects down). "It's not easy, being Green" --Kermit the Frog. So let us help rather than to destroy. Thanks. --Dorothy Ps-I think I will be buying one of these snazzy little homes myself.