While the movie rags aren’t clamoring to cover this story, I can tell you that a few outdoor lifestyle sites have picked it up, including Backpacker and Cold Splinters. It looks like Edward Abbey’s gang of eco-misfit saboteurs from his 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, might be coming to a theater near you in [...]
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Looks like Richard Drefuss isn’t the only one with grand green plans for a future home.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, somehow has the cash to build a new 6,000 sq. ft. four-bedroom, GreenPoint-rated house next to his current $7 million home in Palo Alto, Calif. Current local building codes prohibit him from adding on to [...]
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Since Richard Dreyfuss announced his plans to build an uber-green dwelling outside San Diego, we’ve been waiting to hear more from the actor on the eco-tech going into the home. Dreyfuss is hooking up with a sustainable-design architect firm called S.K.I.N. (Sustainable Kinetic Integrated Nature) — so the off-grid home is expected to take advantage [...]
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Yet another celebrity is planning on taking their living space off-grid! In this case, it’s Richard Dreyfuss and his massive green renovation of a 6,000 sf home in San Diego. The award-winning actor is planning to strip the newly-purchased home to its studs and beams and incorporate the latest in high-tech green renewable energy into [...]
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