5 lessons from a house that generates more energy than it uses

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The Fortunato’s Green Idea House in Hermosa Beach, Calif. has a flat roof with a five foot overhang that shields the sun and cools the home. Robert Fortunato’s “ Green Idea House ” has been doing that for over a decade. In that spirit, here are five lessons from the Green Idea House. But other features of the Green Idea House do not have consumer momentum and industries working in their favor. That’s $400 a month in utility and gasoline savings that could keep adding up, 15 years after the Green Idea House was finished.