In 2006, San Francisco Bay Area residents Paul Holland and Linda Yates began the process of designing what they intended to eventually become the “greenest home in America.” Besides wanting to limit their own participation in the oil economy and live more sustainably, they also wanted their home to function as a model of sustainability in order to inspire others to build homes that truly become a regenerative part of the landscape.
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Lessons Learned from the 'Greenest Home in America': Tah Mah Lah 7 Years Later
Natural Selection
A home in Northern California marries high design and sustainability with the goal of inspiring a green living movement
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A Natural Fit
At home, one eco-friendly venture capitalist and his family are drawn to a deeper shade of green.
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Is this the greenest house in America? Get a look inside
TODAY contributor Lilliana Vazquez traveled to California recently to tour one of the “greenest” houses ever built. She offers an inside look at what it’s like to have an almost self-sustaining lifestyle – and she says it’s fun!
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Bringing Outside In
BAMO founding principal Michael Booth and his expert design team help create one of the greenest homes in the country.
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Insights from a Green Tech VC
Paul Holland is a sustainability-minded venture capitalist with VC firm Foundation Capital, which has invested in Netflix and demand-response company EnerNoc, among many others. He’s also the owner of perhaps the greenest house in America, built with his wife Linda Yates in Portola Valley, Calif., and profiled here.
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‘Greenest Home in America’ Relies on Efficiency Technologies
When Paul Holland and Linda Yates set out to build a the “greenest home in America” on the Portola Valley, Calif. hillside where Linda grew up, they envisioned something that would debunk the myths that green building was ugly, too expensive and alters your lifestyle. It would also adhere to four principals of sustainable and “regenerative” building: energy, materials, water and habitat.
Net Zero, 100% Beautiful
A Portola Valley couple orchestrates an ensemble of “green” gurus to reclaim their 1967 family home into a world-class, 21st-century Mecca for sustainable living.
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Where Green Meets High Tech
America's greenest home isn't short on high tech goodies. Automation and control provide entertainment, help boost energy efficiency and keep useful technologies hidden.
Touching Earth Softly
THOUGH DEVELOPED LESS THAN 13 YEARS AGO, the popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program is today’s green-building norm. LEED recognizes structures that use less energy and water than conventional buildings do. But Jason McLennan, a Washington architect, is working to achieve more. McLennan is the brainchild behind a new, supergreen certification program that aims to create an entirely new class of ultra-sustainable buildings. .
