This article from USA Today’s GreenHouse , by Wendy Koch shows how smart a “Smart Home” can be.
Rooftop gardens, cisterns, windmills and recycled kitchen countertops are featured in green home exhibits at museums in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
On Thursday in Chicago, the 2,500-square-foot, fully functioning “Smart Home” exhibit will re-open with a new interior at the the Museum of Science and Industry. More than 200,000 visitors have toured the modern prefab home since it opened in May 2008.
Last week in Dayton, Ohio, the “PNC Be Green House” debuted as a permanent new exhibit at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. It has solar panels and rainwater harvesting features that visitors can operate.At least two other green-home exhibits in the United States also aim to show visitors new green technologies as well as ways to reduce their own carbon footprint.
