Architect and environmentalist Colin Oglesbay (Colin is my cousin) shows off his latest renovation project on Blueprint for Green. The house is going to feature a solar garage that will charge the car that drives Colin and his wife Erin to work, a "living" wall that is comprised of living biomass (chia wall, says Colin), special thermal and recycled building materials, and a big slab of black concrete to store solar energy. You have to click episode 12, segment 2 to see Colin, and it's unclear how long episode 12 will be on the front page [1], but it is really exciting to see the great initiatives that are happening to find sustainable ways of living. You rock, Colin!

[1] Rant: Why, website builders, do you still make whole sites in Flash??!? How are people supposed to link to anything but your front page?