Green House

It waters itself. It powers itself. If only it could take out the trash. Entrepreneur Steve Glenn's ultra-energy-efficient house in Santa Monica, Calif., is the first home in the country to be given "platinum" status in the U.S. Green Building Council's influential LEED rating system (for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Glenn, the founder of Web software firm PeopleLink Inc., worked for more than two years on the project, hiring Los Angeles architect Ray Kappe to lend his earthy blend of California modernism to the design.

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