Eco-City in Kansas

Tornado, which flew on the Kansas town of Greensburg on May 4, was assigned the EF5 category - the highest on the six-point scale. And even though he didn’t carry away girls with houses, the city was almost completely destroyed in 20 minutes.
A few days later, city residents gathered together and agreed to rebuild the city again, deciding that the city would be built rationally and become a model of a green city in the future. That was about two years ago. Cultural center with solar panels, wind generators, an abundance of journalists and the attention of the Discovery Channel: this is all Greensburg today .
Workers at the BTI Greensburg tractor shop promised to rebuild it during a visit to President Bush, immediately after the disaster, and installed an economical plumbing system and 2 wind turbines. The city has built a number of office and residential buildings that have received LEED - Leadership Energy and Environmental Design certificates.

To rebuild the city, residents invited the best architects and designers with their ideas for green house design. A competition was announced for the best green house project, yesterday was the last day of the vote. You can familiarize yourself with the best design patterns and dream about your own green house here .
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The basic principles of eco-house:
• Fundamentally, there should be no centralized life support systems. Eco-House operates on the basis of an individual autonomous or small collective engineering system (heating, water supply, sewerage, utilization of household waste).
• Eco-house is provided with energy only at the expense of alternative renewable sources - sun, wind, water, plants (wind power plants, solar panels, micro-power plants, etc.).
• Organic waste of human life is processed in simple bioreactors into fertilizer, which is later used in the household plot for growing food products.
• The most important characteristic of the ecohouse is the accumulation of heat. It is provided by constructive, architectural and planning solutions, the use of effective insulation, the use of heat accumulators.
• After the end of the service life at home, the natural materials from which it is made will be able to return back to the cycle of nature.

Particular attention is paid to the construction of eco-houses in Europe. For example, starting in 2019, in the European Union, eco-homes may become mandatory .