The first certifiably "green" mansion - Green Gluttony Gone Wild!

Earth-friendly Manson? But who would guess that this is the largest eco-friendly house in America built in Atlanta by Ted Turner's daughter. With its 27 photovoltaic panels on the roof, solar tubes that snake into interior rooms, geothermal heat pumps, and rainwater-collecting cisterns, this is, in fact, the first home over 5,000 square feet ever to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council - and evidence of a new wave of eco-building that doesn't look like eco-building.EcoManor won LEED certification using innovations like geothermal systems, photovoltaic panels and soy-based insulation. Energy should be 80 to 90 percent below average for a like-sized Atlanta home.

Meantime, Turner has given hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes "...guilt-tripped him into it." , he confesses that he has paid scant attention to building green. (Why bother, since with 22 ranches and other properties, he says, "I don't spend more than a month each year at any one.")

(Fortune Magazine)