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"facebook dialogPinterestPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nEnvironmentally conscious living doesn't have to be crunchy. In fact, it can be downright refined\u2014a locally-sourced tasting menu, a cocktail with organic vodka, or, if you're really ready to spend, a luxury green home that's anything but ascetic. You wish you lived here.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestsomerset-int-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nLocation: Glass manse in Western Cape, South Africa\n\n Price: $852,785\n\n Size: 4,680 square feet\n\n Key selling points: Jaw-dropping architecture and luxe extras like the home's wine gallery and salt-water pool meet bonuses like a bio fuel fireplace, rain water tanks, energy-efficient construction, and grounds with carefully-preserved indigenous vegetation.\n\n Listing: Sotheby's\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestUley-ext-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestUley-int-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nLocation: Green-roofed contemporary in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom\n\n Price: $2,801,360\n\n Size: 5,000 square feet\n\n Key selling points: This sleek UK home takes sustainability seriously, with an air-to-water heat pump, a green sedum-covered roof that puts rainwater to good use and insulates the home, and a biomass boiler that uses sustainable wood pellets to provide carbon-neutral floor heating. Did we mention that the floors are recyclable?\n\n Listing: Carter Jonas\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestlaurelhill-ext-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestlaurelhill-int-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nLocation: Geothermal-heated home in Dublin, Ireland\n\n Price: $1,749,190\n\n Size: 2,850 square feet\n\n Key selling points: Underneath all the Carrera marble, solid oak, brushed chrome, and polished granite, this modern home boasts bona fides like a geothermal heat pump and solar hot water cylinder.\n\n Listing: Sherry Fitzgerald\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestruepyke-ext-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestruepyke-int-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nLocation: Solar passive home in Hudson, Quebec\n\n Price: $1,377,285\n\n Size: 2,600 square feet\n\n Key selling points: Every other natural, sustainable home has just been owned by this Canadian contemporary. It's made with rammed-earth walls, raw bamboo countertops, eucalyptus flooring, raw white cedar and maple walls, and a Tulukivi soapstone fireplace. It's also solar passive, using geothermal energy and radiant floor heating for warmth, an underground rainwater reservoir to manage water, and an energy recovery ventilation system to, well, save energy. Oh, and locally sourced restaurants can go cry themselves to sleep: the backyard has a geodesic dome greenhouse, heirloom orchard, and fruit bush plantation.\n\n Listing: Sotheby's Canada\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestfortmyers-pool-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestfortmyers-int-REP.jpgPhotos courtesy of respective real estate companies.\n\nLocation: Energy-efficient country club house in Fort Myers, Florida\n\n Price: $995,000\n\n Size: 3,970 square feet\n\n Key selling points: A country club home with a conscience: the water in its pipes and its pool is solar heated, and a high-efficiency heat pump and hybrid energy system round out its energy-conservative features. And if you're as worried about your own health as you are the planet's, the low-VOC paint is grounds to chill out.\n\n Listing: Royal Shell Sales\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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