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The Experimental Home. A new, sustainably-built home seeks produce as much energy as it consumes.

Tom Kelly’s mountain home is a showcase for sustainability

Clear Creek Road rolls out of downtown Parkdale and climbs toward the northern flank of Mount Hood. Just before the road splits and heads toward Laurance Lake, it passes an experiment.

The experiment looks like a house — a modern, angular, not-too-outlandish house.

But it is an experiment. It’s an experiment in building a "net zero energy" home — a home that will run on solar power and send its unused power back to the electrical grid, to draw from when needed. A home built using sustainable and green materials. A home sited to capture passive solar energy and recirculate air for natural cooling. A home landscaped in native grasses and drought-tolerant plantings.

Bridget A. Otto

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/homes_gardens/1153254353107880.xml&coll=7

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