Denmark: House of Organic inspiration

While we were in Denmark we visited the House of Organic Inspiration, which was full of ecological and green technology. Right away our guide had an amazing out-going personality which brought a new light and interest into the subject of "green". She was very passionate about the environment and everything the house stood for. As began our tour inside the house, we were greated with the first stop of the natural toilet room. The toilet consisted of a place for liquids... and then a bag for solid waste. It was difforent at first to see but made sence in the end on how they would take and compost the waste later on. just another interesting take on how one can conserve more. This house also consisted of a multitude of ways of heating and cooling the area such as hydro as well as solar panal heating and electricity use. The walls were shown and made naturally with layers in order to trap in more heat as well as to cool in the summer. It was interesting because this house even had a fountain going from the top level and trickled down a spiral of rocks until it was to ground level. This was because of the fact that although it was rain water, the energy that it would produce flowing down the rocks, would help provide it with enouph energy to help replenish the soils around the house making the plants more nutriant. Around the roof of the house they had planted many difforent plants in order to help trap the air and toxins that had been let out by the random glues and paints that the kids might have used in their crafts earlier that day. The soils help trap and reuse these toxins so they do not go back into the atmosphere as strong. There were many intersting aspects to this house. I am not sure if I personally could live in something like this but there were a lot of good ideas and inspererational ideas that it gave off that many people could use in their every day house that are both moder and eco friendly.




Erika Strom