This Geodesic dome home in the woods of Brainerd is packed with green technologyIn the mid-1990s, an eco-entrepreneur designed and built a geode...
Published on by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
In the mid-1990s, an eco-entrepreneur designed and built a geodesic dome home in the woods near Brainerd, Minn., using a kit from Natural Spaces Homes in North Branch, Minn.
The unusual home was a project of the Water Foundation, which invested $1.75 million into packing the home with 20 conservation technologies, including solar panels, two geothermal systems and a wind turbine.
“It was a labor of love,” said David Winkelman, who started the organization and acted as general contractor on the dome home. “The idea was to run a building on its own power and resources. It was way ahead of its time.”