Green Ideas

Whisper Mountain, Near Asheville: Green Building Ideas for Sustainable Living

Whisper Mountain, near the beautiful city of Asheville, North Carolina, is a place surrounded by natural beauty and culture, and is home to the 2008 Southern Living Green Idea House. The Green Building Idea House will be open to public tours in June of 2008. Eco Builders is the Asheville-based company that has been selected to construct the Southern Living Green Idea House.

Sneak Previews of the Green Idea House

As the Green Idea House is being built, Whisper Mountain invites you to visit this page regularly for sneak previews of green building ideas. Living green is not just an idea. Green building techniques are being implemented in the construction of mountain homes near Asheville, North Carolina and elsewhere across the United States. Whisper Mountain, Eco Builders, and Southern Living magazine invite the public to observe green building ideas in a real setting. Visitors will learn about the cost saving benefits of energy and water conservation, use of natural and recycled resources, as well as the lowered impact on the environment that conscious green building can initiate.

Energy Efficient Green Construction

A green built home can have a variety of features. It can be constructed with native or natural materials, or recycled materials. Some green built homes help conserve resources, make smart use of natural resources which exist on or nearby the property, and supply sustainable living through the use of solar and wind energy and water collection. These and many other green building methods will be discussed on the Whisper Mountain Green Building Ideas page.

North Carolina Real Estate: With the Option of Building Eco Friendly Homes

Whisper Mountain, North Carolina is a thoughtfully planned private community with full regard for environmental preservation. Situated on the edge of Madison and Buncombe Counties in North Carolina, near Asheville, the preservation of open space has been a number one priority in the master planning of this community. Whisper Mountain has land for sale and provides a limited number of wooded home sites ranging from 1-6 acres in a peaceful, rural setting with dramatic views of the mountains of North Carolina. Whisper Mountain's founders, builders, and residents tread lightly on the land. An extensive trail system, which winds through historic sites that preserve the heritage of early settler's of the land, gives residents and visitors the opportunity for peace and tranquility in the context of a private community. For many emerging from an urban lifestyle or a busy life, living green complements living in balance with nature and embracing the land . . . this is what it means to make your home at Whisper Mountain, where conservation and preservation meet.

Living Green at Whisper Mountain: Recycling, Reuse, and Renewal

At Whisper Mountain we take green building seriously, and we use the best practices of implementing a multitude of techniques. Keeping attuned to the green building theme of recycling, reuse and renewal, our historic and heritage themed owner's lodge and homes incorporate site harvested timber and local stone. Currently, Whisper Mountain has NCHealthyBuilt® and LEED certified houses under construction by Western North Carolina Green Building Council members Cashin Construction and EcoBuilders.

Green Home Building: North Carolina HealthyBuilt® Homes

Whisper Mountain is a platinum member of the Western North Carolina Green Building Council. The NCHealthyBuilt® Homes' Program provides a certificate for homes meeting "green home guidelines" built by residential builders who practice sustainable, high performance building strategies making the home a comfortable, healthy and affordable place to live. Green home building helps to reduce energy and water usage, promotes renewable energy use and helps protect the land where the green construction home is built.

If you choose a HealthyBuilt® Home for your piece of North Carolina mountain real estate, you can rest assured that building materials and processes are selected to reduce pollution and the waste of natural resources during the manufacturing and construction phases and throughout the life of the home. With energy efficient green construction practices, the builder is encouraged to provide homeowner education about the high performance features of the home and to provide local resources for "green" living. Whisper Mountain encourages homeowners and the custom homebuilders to take part in the HealthyBuilt® program.