Mission

Green Habitats promotes sustainable building, supporting research and educational programs to design and build housing that conserves water and energy.

Founders

Green Habitats Foundation, Inc. was founded by John Lie-Nielsen, Real Estate and Technology entrepreneur with the encouragement of wife Debra Lie-Nielsen and "Green" pioneer Tim Buffkin.

Sustainable House Makes Its Home At New Tellus Museum

CARTERSVILLE, GA (Maia Fox, Staff Writer - Daily Tribune News: Sunday, Dec 21, 2008) Although Tellus Science Museum has yet to open, another exhibit has been added to the collection.

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GA Tech leads nations most ambitious solar energy attempt

With energy costs rising as fast as global-warming concerns heat up, it's one thing to talk about the challenge. It's quite another to do something about it. Here, in the heart of the Sunbelt South, many are giving a promising solution called solar energy the "college try" – and then some. On the campus of Georgia Tech, upward of 130 present and past students have put up, from scratch, an experimental facility called the Solar Decathlon house. It's a "learning laboratory" with "souped-up" technology, as described by Russell Gentry, a Georgia Tech professor who oversaw it's construction, and it adds up to one of America's most ambitious and sophisticated projects aimed at harnessing energy from the sun.

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