Special Announcement: Yes, Virginia, there is an HGTV “Green” Home
We’re going green! Next year — in addition to the HGTV Dream Home 2008 in Florida — you’ll be able to enter the very first HGTV “Green” Home Giveaway for a chance to win a custom-built, fully-furnished home! The home will be built using eco-friendly materials, energy-saving appliances and natural textiles. Keep checking HGTV.com for more news on the Green Home including location, timing for the giveaway, an online home tour…the works!
In the meantime, stay right here for more news on the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway 2008, which begins on Jan. 1, 2008. As you know, the next HGTV Dream Home is being built now in Islamorada, Fla. That means next year you’ll have TWO giveaways to enter for a chance to win a home.
And there’s going to be a lot more green in HGTV’s programming lineup in the near future, too:
Red, Hot and Green is a one-hour special devoted to “green” design, featuring craftsman and green enthusiast Carter Oosterhouse and “eco-stylist” Danny Seo. It premieres on HGTV Sunday, June 10 at 9pm e/p, and we will also have tons of content from the special on HGTV.com starting in late May.
And Ed Begley, Jr. along with wife Rachelle Carson Begley are back with a second season of HGTV’s critically-acclaimed series Living with Ed. The Emmy-nominated actor and passionate environmentalist will be back in all-new episodes starting Sunday, Aug. 26 at 10pm e/p, immediately following HGTV Design Star.
Glad to see HGTV thinking about the environment. I now call Virginia home, but grew up in South Carolina before air conditioning was invented, upon moving to Virginia with the change in temperature and humidity found I can live without it along with other things that harm the environment. Way to go HGTV.
A green home is great but like others I think a more simple homey look and feel is needed and why not have enough land with free lessons on wildlife rehabilation included with pens and flight cages? That would truely be a green home.
I’m glad the next Green Dream Home is in FloridaI have traveled 85percent around the u.s and in my opinion there is no place better. My family and I live in Clermont, FL.
I just watched one of your programs. My conclusion… “I need help to change my one bedroom apartment!”. I had plans but after seeing your program I could use your knowledge to change my pad to a “green” one!. Can you help me?
JJ
I would love to see the HGTV team make a dream home that is affordable to the average person. Like a $500,000. dream home. Some thing a person could win and keep to actually live their dream! Instead of having to worry how fast it will sell before the taxes, etc. are due. If they build homes with a value of $500,000., they could build 20 homes or more and have that many winners. Life would be happy for many people not just one person.
Keep up the good work, we are at this time in a transplant house ( the gift of life) in Rochester MN. More and more we here that after transplant of stem cells for Multiple Myleoma and other blood cancers that we need to be free of mold, and in a more natural enviornment. Since we now live in an old farm house we must sell it soon and do not know where we will go because we have a large mortgage and will not realize enough when selling to purchase another home…anyway this will be wonderful for so many people going thru bone marrow transplants…thank you
P.s. you did have an article about a woman who lived in the Carolina’s who was building small green homes, wondering if you could let me know her name again I would like to find out more…
I will be one of the first to enter your green home.
WE were hoping that you were coming our way after the dream home in Colorado. I am a little bummed that you reverted back to the south/south east area again. It would be nice to see a dream home on the west coast in the near future. Oregon, Washington and California are all beautiful states and worthy of a georgously built HGTV Dream Home.
WE were hoping that you were coming our way after the dream home in Colorado. I am a little bummed that you reverted back to the south/south east area again. It would be nice to see a dream home on the west coast in the near future. Oregon, Washington and California are all beautiful States and worthy of a gorgeously built HGTV Dream Home.
It would really be nice if you could build that dream house in the state of Connecticut! We have the four seasons. G Douglas
Flordia??? Why??? dont we already have 2 there??? i mean why not California,Washington,idaho or some place with all four seasons i mean idaho has all of them and has a great summer and winter were you could go swimming in lake pend orellie (pond Oray)and in the winter have a blast snowbording in the winter or even go skiing.Or at least for the hgtv dream home 2009 think about other place than flordia try some were new.Other ways i love you guy you are so nice and so thoughtful i love the plans and everything except for the area!!!
boy i sure do need a new house, mine is about to leave town any time now. i need somewhere nice and quite,country, 5 miles to main road any road . i love south carolina but i’ll take look out mountain georgia. anywhere but maryland. lol
I think green somewhere close to Tulsa would be the best of all worlds. Make sure the house is energy efficient and build, as one person wrote, a house worth 350-500K with all taxes paid!! Then you could afford to keep it! That’s the perfect dream home.
I feel hgtv has always chosen the perfect locations for homes every design down to the smallest detail has been magnificent its wonderful how they not only think of the adults but they care for the children too! when they build these homes
I think a green home is a wonderful idea.I also think that serpent mound would be a beautiful place for either a green or dream home
I think a Green home is great. To me the best place to build it would be in Mountianair,Arizona. The weather is mild in summer and has snow in the winter. Flagstaff and Sedona are within minutes and Phoenix is about 3 hours away. The Grand Canyon is also within an easy drive and Vegas is just a few hours away! Plus no earthquakes,tornados or hurricanes!!
Thanks for helping bring green homes and building into the spotlight. Good Job.
Wow! Two homes to be given away next year! I cant wait. I am so excited about the new green house, I would love to win that one however, if I won the house in Florida I wouldn’t mind that at all either!! Thanks HGTV, you are giving away the one thing each of us prays for, a place of our own to rest our heads at night!!! I will be entering everyday!!!
I think people who have already won a home should not be allowed to enter to win another home.Let someone else have a chance to win a home.
Warm regards from Barbados;
I watched your show Red Hot& Green the other night and I was thoroughly impressed, excited and touched. There was one house in particular that caught my interest. It was a house run completely off of Solar Panels. Can you please let me know who the makers of these panels are and how I can contacted them.
Warm Regards
ALL THUMNS, FINGERS AND TOES UP!!!!
Lydia
OOOH! A green home! I will definitely enter every day! And as far as a vehicle in the garage, how about an all-electric Tesla – a sports car that goes from 0-60mph in 4 seconds and gets 245 MPC (miles per charge) in new EPA testing!
Be sure to use solar AND wind energy as well as green building techniques!
This is an excellent idea. We have to preserve our planet one step at a time. The idea of a green house is great. Please try to include ideas that the masses can incorporate. Having a green house is expensive for most people. Use solar energy as its max potential would be great.
If you build it they will come. Green is my favorite color too.
WOW!!! thanks for the wonderful news. especially for those of use who want to be more environmentally friendly, not to mention i once lived in VA which is a beautiful state. i now live in florida, so either or would be nice to win! lol i hope this means you will be doing a environmentally friendly home every! SMILE!
Hopefully it will be located in a nice sunny place!A “forever summer” type location! Without snow of course.
How about a green job to go with the green house? That way I could possibly keep both?
I could retire if I could win something like this and I am so ready and my kitties and dog want me home so they can eat all day and sit in my lap. Please Please let me win or I shall not not be able to retire until… who knows.
DITTO ON ALL THE COMMENTS. I THINK I READ ALMOST ALL OF THEM, VERY GOOD IDEAS AND THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW GREEN HOME. I'M PRAYING FOR EITHER ONE OF THOSE GREAT HOMES. THE KEYS WOULD BE FANTASTIC. OUR FAMILY WOULD LOVE TO LIVE ON THE WATER WITH ALOT OF PALM TREES. THE GREEN HOME I'M SURE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL. EITHER ONE FOR US GOD!!!
SHARON
I do hope I haven’t missed something, and that the green house is in Virginia. Yes, the climate can change from hot to cold overnight and then back, but that’s an old joke about 10-minute weather changes for every place I’ve ever lived except CA! No one in Southern CA knows what the word “weather” means! Anyway, I hope the Green House location is revealed soon, as I have not had time to read this site forever, and I am so excited to hear it might be VA! Which is where we want to retire in a couple of years! Make my day! VA is so gorgeous! My ancestors came there in in the 1630s, and I cannot think of another state I want to live in when I get the chance again! God bless whoever wins it, and they will be blessed with a green house!
I am so excited about the new contest!!!! I am looking forward to winning an HGTV dream home…Maybe this is the year for our blessing!
God bless
A sweepsstake to retrofit a home with maximum energy saving technology would be great. I will be glad to let you do mine
the first time ive seen “green” home was last night i watch hgtv all the time. that was the neatest thing ive ever seen, never new about it. my daughter and i have both had cancer and it could be all the things in are home if you ever build a “green home” in Mn keep me in mind.Ill continue to watch and learn more thank you Good luck everyone GOD BLESS
I love HGTV and have for years. I am thrilled you are going so green! My family was forced to seek green building alternatives several years ago to preserve my health. It is wonderful now that others are learning some of the things we have had to discover the hard way over the years. Thank you, thank you! It’s nice to be a little more mainstream and not the freak in town!
Are you going to use Wind power on this project?
Ever since I was in an Enviromental Science class in college I have been interested in having an environmentally friendly home. I hope I win so I can teach my children about green homes.
I need A LOG HOME I LOST MY HOME TO THE U.S.A.GOV .I GOT SICK ?
I also would like to see if you are going to use Wind Power for this Green home. What a wonderful idea!
i really like your show it is wonderful i love what you do
PEASE
I love you show and I hope I win so I can show my grandkids about green homes
green my favor color (Tarus hahaha)
I THINK THE EAST COAST SHOULD BE USED MORE FOR EITHER HOME. ON THE OCEAN OR ON A CLIFF OVERLOOKING IT. MAINE WOULD BE GREAT! I’M FROM NEW YORK, I’D GO! JUST DON’T FORGET THE STONE FIREPLACE.
I WOULD LOVE TO BE IN A HOME WHERE I CAN HAVE A TASTE OF NATURE. MY PARENTS ARE FROM PUERTO RICO AND HAVE TAUGHT ME HOW TO TAKE CARE OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US TO BE IN A HOME THAT DOES ALL THE TIME WOULD BE GREAT AND IT IS SOMETHING I COULD SHARE WITH MY CHILDERN AND FAMILY. A WARM LOCATION LIKE ARIZONA WOULD BE FANTASTIC!!!WHY?
BECAUSE I WAS RAISED IN BUFFALO AND NOW LIVE IN MICHIGAN.I CRAVE TO LIVE IN A WARMER CLIMATE!!
how do i enter to win the 2008 dream home?PLEASE ADVISE============THANK YOU=======
I love the DH, even though I close coral for my master bdrm or anywhere. I do like the colors throughout the house. The green is a “POP” & is so refreshing. If I should “WIN” do I still have to color my hair green? I would, I could, I can!!!! Dee
I am so glad that HGTV is listening to the cry from America. Perhaps one day builders will quit using antiquated water heaters and help save natural gas and electric! Perhaps we need to have the govt require better building standards! Green means GO! All the way to heaven! Ed and Rachelle are a riot as well as doing a wonderful service! Keep them on for a while, maybe have them visit some other people who are just ordinary, around the country – show what different environmental needs for different climates can be met during new construction, not just removation. Carter is great, too! If I had the money, I would change my tract house a lot, to meet much more rigid environmentally friendly standards. I will be doing that a little at a time, as I can! God bless and keep on turning green!
I have been interested in green products and green building since I first discovered that it was going on. I grew up in Virginia and would love to move back there to a Green House!
Great job! At last green and sustainable consciousness.
Please be sure to share as a resource the USGBC, United States Green Building Council, http://www.usgbc.org. (It is the organization the oversees LEED ratings ). Local chapters of the national organization offer a wealth of information too as well as terrific local resources.
Get involved locally to make a difference in your community, life, world!
Love the idea of a Eco friendly green home! What a better way to be friendly to the environment we live in! Love it, love it, love it! I hope I win! If I don’t win the home in Florida!
Please, please, please, don’t use the same designer as the Dream Home, and hopefully it won’t be as bland. Green homes can be beautiful, but please don’t go with painted white kitchen cabinets and boring white tiles in the baths. Show people that green can be interesting, textural and exciting.
omg ive been interested in helping the planet like,…all my life. This is a great way to help save the planet!
I am glad that HGTV is becoming green. What I hope to see is a show that follows the building of green homes and show casing diffenent kinds of green technology, building materials, and appliances. A really in depth show
It’s about time HGTV went green. But I won’t be entering to win it. I don’t even enter for the Dream Home Giveaway. In my mind the Dream Home Giveaway is named the Nightmare Giveaway. Not only does it raise your income taxes for the year, the cost of the insurance for the home, there most likely are state and /or local sales taxes. On more of a personal note, the location and size of the home are not what I really want.
This would be my ideal idea of a Dream Home Giveaway:
1. Keep the $250,000 cash prize.
2. Keep the vehicle prize.
3. Have people enter the contest and describe there ideal home, the location and lot size or acreage (size limit of up to 5 acres) of where they would like the home built.
4. Pick the winner, then with a budget of what they use to build the dream homes now, HGTV could buy the property and build that persons dream home. And any money is left over from the budget; add it to the cash prize.
5. After the house is built, announce to the winner and the country who won the home.
They still can show pictures of the place being built, but don’t disclose the location till the winner is announced.
For a contest like that I would enter and if I won, I would find a way to pay the taxes on it. My Idea of a dream home is: 2000sq. ft. house built with green materials, with solar panels and a wind turbine for power, in floor heating, a garage, small barn for my chickens, and a solar powered green house.