Design an Eco-Friendly House!

Here is a gallery of architectural styles to give you ideas for your own home design. http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/colonial-cape-cod-2268048.htm

Check out the green home being built by Battlestar Gallactica celebrity, Tricia Helfer! http://www.triciagreen.com/index.htm

Design a 3D house and walk through it with the guidance of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright! http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/home.html

Take a quiz to see how much you know about what it takes to build a house! http://home.howstuffworks.com/house-quiz.htm

Read the CA Green Building Codes and make sure your building is up to snuff! http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/bsc/CALGreen/2010_CA_Green_Bldg.pdf

When you want to choose a location, check it out to see what the zone is. http://gisweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/website/webapppublic/zoning/

You can see information about different places in Richmond, including race, population and wealth, by creating your choice of maps here: http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map3.aspx?g=0&mapi=SE0012

Read Chapter 16.1 in McDougal Littell Biology and take the quiz online! Click here: http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/bio_07/quiz.htm?title=Section%20Quiz&ch=5&testId=18262

Here is a radio story about what has been happening to real estate in America. The show tells the story by following what happened to one specific house. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/13/pm-lot-354-a-tale-of-americas-housing-meltdown/

Once you have designed your house, you can learn how to calculate your LEED rating here: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=3638