Being Green in the OC is as Simple as ABC

A rendering of the ABC Green Home (courtesy: ABC Green Home Project)

Last week, we announced plans to build an environmentally friendly home near the Orange County Great Park in Orange County, California.  Dubbed the ABC Green Home because of goals to make it affordable, buildable and certified by several of the green-building rating agencies, the house will demonstrate that a solar-powered, environmental home can be built using available materials, technology and appliances at a cost that's competitive with conventional housing.

The ABC Green Home will be the first of two experimental homes that SCE will build in Orange County, with support from the homes' designer, KTGY Group architects and Newport Beach-based Green Home Builder magazine.

The goal would be for the completed home to be displayed for a year so the public and the homebuilding industry can learn from the effort.  The home will then be moved to a new site and given away, most likely to a low-income family or a veteran.  

Read more about the ABC Green Home project here.