Adam – 3/27/09 – World’s Greenest Buildings Documentary

Over the Break my dad was flicking through channels on TV, and saw something that said World’s Greenest Buildings on the USA channel. He told me to come and watch it to see if it was useful in my research of green architecture. The show was an hour long, documentary on different millionaires and big corporations who were making their homes and facilities more energy efficient. Although the documentary was not completely relevant to my topic, it did give some useful information about it. This one man, who was an entrepreneur and I cannot remember his name, spent about two years transforming his mansion on the island of Mallorca in Spain into a solar powered house. It was already a beautiful house with a view of a beach and skylights and everything, but he was devoted to making it green. Since Mallorca gets a lot of sunlight, He put solar panels all across his roof, and used it to charge his home. All of his kitchen machines; his stove, microwave, oven, were all powered by the solar energy. He also planted 35 trees around his house, and different flowers and bushes as well. Another segment of the documentary talked about how this program called Lead (which is a well know green architecture program) was using leftover wood from lumber companies that they were throwing away and transforming the leftover wood into a huge wooden rollercoaster in France. They would make this lumber into all sorts of great machines and parks. The documentary was very interesting and provided useful information that I can use in my future studies for Green Architecture.