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Project Name: EcoHood
Property address:
529 Dameron Dr.
Prescott, Arizona
86301
USA
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Selling Price (USD): $210,000
Living area (Sq. Ft.): 936
Number of Bedrooms: 3
Number of Bathrooms: 1
Lot Size: 1/8th acre
Year Built: 1952
Monthly Utility Cost (USD): $75
Property Web Site:
www.ecohood.info
What makes it Green:
The home has good passive solar orientation with open solar access for natural lighting and passive heating.
The home interior walls are earthen plaster, each room a different color of Earth Clay from the American Clay
Company. Most windows are low-E double glazed with custom made insulated curtains. The home is compact with a
woodstove and natural gas and takes little energy to heat, with ceiling fans for cooling, and trees planted
around strategically for summer shading and winter sun.
The home's exterior is a virtual botanical garden of edible, medicinal, and habitat plantings, with over
60 different species of perennial trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs, as well as fertile annual garden beds.
A rainwater harvesting system with 4,000 gallons of storage irrigates the gardens by gravity. Garden beds
are sunken and deeply mulched, some with ollas (clay pots) buried for trickle irrigation.
Greywater from the shower/bath and bathroom sink as well as the laundry machine are fed to plantings
sub-surface through a legal branched drain greywater system that is effortlessly maintained. An antique
hand-dug well with water at 7 to 17 feet is pumped by a solar panel into a wetlands water treatment system
called a living machine, designed by Dr. John Todd himself (view a video about it here: www.ecohood.info ).
The well water is then used for irrigation.
The yard also includes a chicken house and shaded chicken area, and an almost finished earthbag, cobb and
strawbale structure that could be an office or meditation room. Custon storage sheds made from recycled materials
tucked in along side house. The whole yard was designed using permaculture principles for ease of maintenance
and beneficial relationships between each element.
The house is the heart of the Ecohood, a collection of ecologically minded folks living on the same block and
adjacent streets that are practicing simple living and ecological sustainability. Wooded bike trails lead to
the downtown square in under 5 minutes. Huge Cottonwood trees surround the creek that flows 100 yards away in
this friendly pedestrian neighborhood.
An adjacent 1/4 acre lot with a house and adjoining backyard is also for sale. Here are some links to articles
in national publications about the home for sale and ecohood community:
www.emagazine.com/view/?3066
www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1472
Garage-Carport: No
Garage-Carport Type: N/A
Number of Cars: N/A
Garage Area (Sq. Ft.): N/A
Heating: Woodburning stove, natural gas heater
Cooling: Ceiling fans, passive cooling
Energy Source: Municipal energy
Water Source: Municipal water, rainwater collection (4000 gallons), greywater irrigation, well
Windows: Low-E double glazed vinyl, custom insulated curtains
Insulation: Fiberglass insulation
Seller Contact Info:
Name: Andrew Millison
Address: 529 Dameron Dr.
City: Prescott
State: AZ
Zip Code: 86301
Country: USA
Phone: 928.776.2499
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