Eco Friendly Green Building with Old Empty Bottles
Another eco friendly building, made of glass bottles, is completed in US. Empty bottles are eco friendly products that are great for environmentally friendly houses. This Green building design helps recycle empty bottles, using them for unique eco friendly building. The backyard gazebo and fence are built of glass bottles also.
The number of glass bottles that are used for every Green building design is impressive. Environmentally friendly houses, made of empty bottles, are unique, and it is interesting what would be the price for this eco friendly building, when the owner decides to sell the house?
Eco friendly building with glass bottles
The most famous eco friendly house, built with glass bottles is John J. Makinen Bottle House. Also known as the Kaleva Bottle House, the energy efficient and eco friendly house were built with available then Green building materials, wood and empty glass bottles. (Read about contemporary smart home automation to lower electricity bills)
New glass bottle house, Green home building design, US
Kaleva Historical Museum is eco friendly house, that was built of empty glass wine bottles in 1941 by John J. Makinen, Sr. Over 60,000 empty glass bottles are laid on environmentally friendly houses walls with the bottoms toward the exterior.
HAPPY eco friendly house, wikipedia.org
The architect of the unique wine and beer bottle eco house, John Makinen was a native of Finland and moved to northwestern Michigan in 1903. He owned and operated the Northwestern Bottling Works Company in Kaleva, where he built his Green home.
There was a large variety of empty bottles that were used as sustainable building materials, including glass wine bottles, , liqueur and beer small bottles, for eco friendly house building. Large and small bottles were round and oblong.
Instead of throwing glass wine bottles away, he decided to recycle them and use for building his eco friendly house. (Look at recycle ideas and modern redesign of old planes) Brown color and clear glass bottles write HAPPY HOME on the front wall of the Green home.
Green building materials, photo via International News
Green building design insulation with glass water bottles
Recently an organic winery in Western Australia became the recipient of $20K Green building design grant from that state’s Sustainable Energy Development Office (SEDO).
The owner of the winery, Peter Little is long time sustainable building materials advocate. He believes that glass water bottles is one of the miracle Green building materials for environmentally friendly houses, which nobody is using for Green building design.
Glass water bottles, sustainable building materials, photos by McLaren
Glass water bottles, any shape glass jars or plastic bottles with water can store a lot of energy for energy efficient Green building design. As one of sustainable building materials, plastic or glass water bottles can heat or cool down eco friendly house interior.
Eco friendly building with glass water bottles does not make Green building design news, and filling them with water for insulation does not either.
The grant was received for the thermal imaging monitoring, sustainable building materials and eco friendly products research for building more environmentally friendly houses in the future. (Read about how to build an eco friendly home on a budget)
Beer bottle green building design
Another example of Green building design is de heer Heineken eco friendly house. He designed his empty bottles as bricks for Green building design.
De heer Heineken WoBo glass bottles eco friendly products
Sustainable building materials, Jacobsen eco friendly house
His empty bottles and glass jars or s, that can be used for eco friendly homes, are known as WoBo, short for World Bottle. WoBo glass bottles have never been sold commercially. Maybe glass bottles and glass jars are still in a warehouse in the Netherlands…
Glass bottles and glass jars are eco friendly products. Once the content is gone, empty bottles and jars can be recycled and used as one of sustainable building materials for environmentally friendly homes design.
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