Building a "green" house: what elements to incorporate?

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For a school project (AP environmental), we have to design and construct a model of a "green"/energy-efficient house. we need 60 (yes, sixty!) eco-friendly/green/energy-efficient components in the house.
ANY IDEAS??? thank you lots!! :D
so far i have:
-adobe walls (control temp, cheap, eco-friendly)
-solar panels
-rainwater collection
-greywater recycling
-rain garden
-xeriscaping
 
in some states, you can not use rain water, so be careful, the state will reject your permit to build. Have parking for green cars in front of the building and put handicap back farther, that's how our latest building got LEED's certified, being green trumps being old and crippled. No elevators. Argon windows. Windows facing south. use Bamboo flooring. Use green appliances. Use geothermal heating/cooling.

Toto toilets with two stage flush. cut the zero scape, have no land. let nature own it and burn itself down as needed. all recycled building parts or reused. all paint has no VOC's.

google LEEDS for more ideas.
 
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