Home building project integrates cutting-edge technology with green lifestyle

Green Life Smart Life is a green home building project on the coast of Rhode Island driven by homeowners searching for integration of a modern lifestyle with green, sustainable living.

Green Life Smart Life embraces the notion that modern day living can and should go hand in hand with sustainability and environmental stewardship, according greenlifesmartlife.com, and demonstrates how families can make lifestyle choices that are both sustainable and realistic to meet their needs without compromising the environment's needs.

The homeowners' web site, greenlifesmartlife.com, will follow their journey as they build their modern green home and go through the LEED certification process. Challenges such as easily accessible green resources and information are some of the issues related to making green mainstream. The homeowners' hope that their project will be "a step-by-step demonstration for those families and individuals looking to adopt green practices in their lives."

With energy efficiency as the foundation to the selection process, every electronic device was reviewed in terms of annual wattage, load requirements and integration with other subsystems before being approved by the integration and design team. The home has been structurally wired for a state-of-the-art whole house video, music, lighting, security and internet system, but uses 50% less wire and materials than a project of comparable size, making it both eco-friendly and efficient.

For more information on this cool project & the tech partners in the home, visit www.greenlifesmartlife.com.