"Listen closely and you can hear silence in Stacey Hurlin's Jefferson County home.
The blast of the heater is not heard as often or as intense as in a conventional home. Instead, she relies on super-insulated walls and ceiling and windows that throw sunlight and heat deep into her home "I've never slept so deeply as I have in this little house," said Hurlin, who is the director of a nonprofit art organization here. "It is a silent little cave." Hurlin lives in a development called Abundance Ecovillage, where homes use energy in nonconventional ways. Many homeowners pay no monthly bills to an electric company. Instead, they have invested up front in solar, wind and other technologies for saving or creating energy. Not far from Ecovillage, the Maharishi University of Management is following suit with plans to complete several projects in the next few years that create their own energy. (more at link) http://tinyurl.com/y2byyk
