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1. I am pleased to see HGTV building a “green home” since this kind of building is overdue for all of us. Everyone trying it will help to bring the costs down for all of us hopefully. I am wondering however is the location of the home conducive to “green” living or will it involve a 20 mile drive to the grocery store or a restaurant? can everyday living be done by walking or biking? golf courses are nice enough but not having to get in the car for everything is better.

   melanie on January 2, 2008 at 8:07 pm
2. We are trying hard to live green every day in little ways but how fantastic to offer a Green HOME! It is wonderful to see the extravagent homes that are offered by HGTV but even more fabulous to know that the environment is playing a large role in everyones thoughts…hopefully it will encourage more earth friendly living worldwide! Thumbs up HGTV!

   Erin F. on January 2, 2008 at 8:36 pm
3. I am so very excited that mainstream America is getting on board and building green we have been to straw bale weekends where we learned and helped build a house.The location is the best I love the south and to be that close to the ocean is the frosting on the cake,Thanks so much HGTV for launching this home!

   tonya on January 2, 2008 at 10:43 pm
4. I love the location. My husband and I have always dreamed of having a home in South Carolina.
   Can hardly wait to view this wonderful green home.

   Olivia F. on January 3, 2008 at 10:08 am
5. I am thrilled at the possibility of a green home.
   I know that they are more expensive to build, but once you have, much more economical to sustain. As heating, transportation, and food prices rise I am concerned about being able to be self sufficient and still be a responsible citizen.

   Pat Johnson on January 3, 2008 at 11:22 am
6. Well being from SC, I would love to be able to go back, I havn’t been home in many yrs. The house looks lovely and the homesite of Traditions is amazing. I absolutely love the fact that the whole community is green. What a fabulous design and idea. I hope that more developers will take notice. I can just imagine sitting on my front porch, or riding a bike around town. Sounds absolutely enchanting. Thanks HGTV for a true dream home for those who are eco-friendly.

   Cynthia on January 3, 2008 at 1:28 pm
7. I just received certification to be a Green Real Estate Broker in South Carolina. Building green saves you money in the long run and it is not much more expensive than a traditional build. I am happy to see green awareness reaching our area.

   Jackie M. on January 3, 2008 at 8:30 pm
8. I would love to win a green home. It would be in a nice up and growing community in south carolina. I would love to have a house down there. The weather is not that bad. JUST to have a house would be good. I’m only 25 but that would be a great age to start to be a homeowner. I can call a house my home and be HAPPY. I can only wait to see and hope and pray that maybe I will get picked. But whoever gets it would be the happiest person ever. They wouldnt have to worry about anything but taxes.
   PS I will be keeping my fingers crossed.

   Camille on January 4, 2008 at 12:58 am
9. I guess everyone is talking on the DH 08 blog. I would like to comment that this will be a terrific home. My hubby and I are doing our part in many ways to be green, but we know we can do better. We know it will save money and us in the long run. Can’t wait to see the finish product and look forward to the tour to be able to see all the ways you can live well going green.

   Lelia on January 4, 2008 at 9:09 am
10. This is the best!! If HGTV takes on green building, everyone will follow. Bravo, Bravo!!

    Sandie on January 4, 2008 at 12:36 pm
11. I can’t wait to see more pictures of the green home. It looks spacious, not small and cramped the way I expected a green home to be. I’m all for recycling, as my family will let you know! The idea of everyone going green is very appealing to me! Thanks HGTV!!!

    Donna Nagy on January 4, 2008 at 8:39 pm
12. I don’t spend much time on the net. Just happened to see the ad about the Green Home. Where on the net can you see it? It sounds so exciting! We will be looking for a new home this spring and would love to know more.

    Beth A. on January 5, 2008 at 9:01 am
13. You guys have really gone and done it now! Green Home in my favorite part of the country, the Low Country between Savannah (the 1st planned new city in America) and Hilton Head Island. Good food, southern hospitality, laid back lifestyle and now it’s “GREEN”. Yea! I can’t wait to enter the contest. I want this house!!

    Helen from GA on January 5, 2008 at 2:02 pm
14. This has nothing to do with the current Green Home you are constructing, but I saw a Development in GA last weekend that might interest be of interest to you for a future Green Home or Dream Home. They are still selling off lots to builders for the future Phases. The web address is LakeArrowheadGA.com. Check it out. You could build a great house with the land prices being so very low. Just a thought from a “fan”

    Marianne on January 5, 2008 at 2:19 pm
15. The pictures on the site have been up since at least Sept., I know you are all involved in the beautiful Islamorada Dream Home but please just a few updated photos or even some videos of the construction would be a really great thing to see.

    Steve Contos on January 5, 2008 at 5:29 pm
16. Perty Pleeeeease, Perty Pleeeease, give us some more info.?!

    a pic would be nice too

    Jess F. on January 5, 2008 at 7:10 pm
17. the dream home is so beautiful and a wonderful location!

    natalie on January 5, 2008 at 7:48 pm
18. I am so excited about the new Green Home near Hilton Head, S.C.

    I am a Carolina native…born in S.C., but currently live in N.C., but would looove nothing more than to be the lucky winner of this wonderful new Green Dream Home in Hilton Head, S.C.!
    Thank you HGTV for giving away such a magnificent home to ordinary people just like us! This would definitely be the ultimate dream come true to win this lovely, eco-friendly home!!!!

    Nikki F. on January 6, 2008 at 10:43 am
19. Wow!!!
    This is a GREAT idea! So many Americans think it’s too much cost or work to green even a little…and here you guys are building a whole home!!!
    KUDOS!!!!
    I can’t wait to see how it comes out….
    and I can’t WAIT to enter!

    Gypsy Lavery on January 6, 2008 at 12:35 pm
20. This is an excellent location for the HGTV Green Home

    Priscilla on January 6, 2008 at 4:36 pm
21. YaY HGTV!!! How fantastic are all the different works you are doing all around the country in helping people ‘style up’ their homes. The Dream Home and now the Green Home sure is something to DREAM BIG about.

    Cindy on January 7, 2008 at 1:56 am
22. This Green Home is definitely my idea of a dream home… just one question. Tradition HH says it’s a “retirement” community. Does that mean there is an age limit for the contest?

    Kelly on January 10, 2008 at 2:53 pm
23. Tradition is near about 10 miles west of Hilton Head Island it is not on Hilton Head. Tradition is a planned community. I have been to Tradition and this will be a beautiful community once it is completed. Once this green home is completed I will be visiting it.

    Peggy on January 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm
24. After losing my life savings to a developer just another 3 miles inland, and being considered too old for employment, if I could win the HGTV green home it would provide me and my dog a new lease on life. As I understand the program, this house could be retained by the winner instead of just walking through a house you know you cannot keep. Enjoyed my visits to Hilton Head while waiting for my other house to be finished, and at my age, and unemployed, I cannot save the necessary funds to purchase another development home. It looks like there are several churches to choose from in the area. Thank You HGTV for initiating the “green home” concept! -

    John on January 16, 2008 at 12:33 am
25. HG…you are inspiring. Green is the ultimate goal. We are doing what we can within our means for now, solar is the next objective. Thanks for all the great ideas and insite… Good luck everyone….and me too…

    Ellen on January 20, 2008 at 1:56 pm
26. My husband is handycaped by artheritist, and heart problems and needs to get to where the climate is warmer than here in north centeral Indiana. WE are short on funds and niether of us canwork. It sure would be a blessing from God if we were to win this house, my husband and I like to garden and we keep it organic. yours truely Diana.

    Diana L. Stafford on January 20, 2008 at 3:57 pm
27. DREAM DREAM DREAM thank you for the opportunity to do so HGTV and DIY. On a beautiful snow day in IN.
    the greenhome in South Carolina is a pleasant place to visit. Peace and contentment to all.

    Lynette on February 3, 2008 at 10:26 am
28. To have a Green home as a dream home is truly the ultimate in giving. I love all the information that you have provided regarding living green and helping the envorinment. I would like to know that I have been part of a movement to save the earth for the next generations.

    golpar ghassemian on February 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm
29. I have been teaching my kids and grand-kids how to be green for over 20 years now. A green home is my dream home. If I am ever blessed with a home, I would make sure that it had all the “green” amenities. Protecting our planet is so vitally important, and education is just the beginning, after you are educated about our planetary problems, you must do your part to solve them. We all must do our parts.

    DaddysDarlin on February 13, 2008 at 1:17 pm
30. I love this home 2! Everybody @ HGTV dose such a wounderful Job!. Thank God for the whole team that works so very hard on all the Dream Homes. This HGTV GREEN HOME the very first of it’s kind on HGTV,. It will save 1 very happy person some GREEN!. Best wishes to everybody and God Bless! Michele

    Michele on March 7, 2008 at 12:08 pm
31. This home is 20 miles from Hilton Head in a different County, In a Town Called Hardeville Located in Jasper County

    Jim on March 9, 2008 at 4:58 pm
32. I LOOOOOVE this house! As a single retiree, this would be my absolute DREAM-green home .. the perfect home in the perfect site. Thank you HGTV!

    Beth on March 13, 2008 at 10:47 am
33. Does anyone know how far this home is from the ocean and if it is in a retirement community? I kind of got that idea from looking at their website. Thought it was right on the beach at first, but then realized that was a retention pond, probably manmade, in the pictures. Thanks and God Bless!

    Tracie on March 17, 2008 at 12:44 am
34. The house may be “green” and it looks absolutely beautiful…. but the beaches are 40 minutes away often with heavy traffic to Hilton Head Island. They need to be more honest about the location. It is much closer to a small town called Hardeeville and they changed the name to play in the Hilton Head fame.

    Rena on March 17, 2008 at 6:16 pm
35. When is the home open to visitors?

    Barbara on March 18, 2008 at 9:46 pm
36. Perfect location! Looking forward to win this Green Home!! Good luck everyone!

    annettys on March 19, 2008 at 7:13 pm
37. Jack, word’s cannot describe your perfections and artistic abilities !! What else can I say; cock-a-doodle-do !! HGTV we love you !!

    Mr. Mitchell W. Tickle on March 19, 2008 at 8:08 pm
38. It is important for people to understand that Tradition Hilton Head is located 29 miles inland from Hilton Head. It is not even in the same county as Hilton Head. I would have expected HGTV to have done a little more homework before signing on to a borderline deceptive ad campaign. Also, don’t expect too much from the overall development. Since it’s inception in 2007, Tradition only has one family living there. Approach with caution. The green home is great, but in this case it could actually be too perfect to be true.

    Michael Lambuth on March 19, 2008 at 9:05 pm
39. How many square feet is the green house – exclude garage space ? How much land is included.

    Deborah on March 23, 2008 at 4:42 pm
40. WOW what a great location to live All I can say is I want to win that home for me and my husband who is retired at the age of 53.I do not golf but I will learn.You all at HGTV really put your foot on this place I loved the last one but this one you have out did your self.Good luck everyone I will see you in the winning circle.

    Phyllis Evans on March 31, 2008 at 4:02 pm
41. Visited today and was very disappointed. Cost $20.00 per adult, half of which goes to the United Way. My issues are not with the price or the house. The house was very nice but the volunteers staffing the house could not answer a single question. The way the tour is set up is like going to a museum, but no one could answer any questions, some of which seemed very basic. For example, they could not tell me where the hot water heater is located. Visitng this house is no different than looking at any model home. You do not get to see anything “behind the scenes” and you can’t touch anything except the handrail going upstairs. I was hoping to see behind the walls, the mechanicals, etc. I wouldn’t do it again.

    t4c on March 31, 2008 at 6:40 pm
42. I am a single mother of 2 teenage boys in Milwaukee. We all suffer from severe chronic migraines and I can’t help but wonder if it is our environment or the house we live in. I pray God will have a bigger plan for us and put us in the Green Home. I would even build a green house and give back to the community if we are so blessed. April 5th is my 20 yr annivarsary of working as a single mom and in December I turn 40. I believe in miracles and this would be a pinnacle year for our family! We truly deserve this for more reasons than I’ve mentioned.

    Christine Gross on March 31, 2008 at 8:54 pm
43. Wow! I am so happy to see the green lifestyle become more main stream. Now people won’t think that I am the ‘crazy lady’ who recycles everything. Let’s continue to protect the future of our earth. Good job HGTV!

    Marlene on April 3, 2008 at 6:25 pm
44. my husband has been diasabled for many yrs and unable to work. he had a lung transplant and is doing well. would i love to occupy this home with him in a beautiful warm climate. video tour of this home is just fantastic.

    barb on April 5, 2008 at 4:46 pm
45. HGTV, you have done it again. This home captures the environment of the low county. What an awesome view of the water and sunset. What an honor and privalege it would be to win and live in the beautiful “Green Home” and live the “Life of Riley”.

    P.S. – Since retiring, my wife and I throughly enjoy the many wonderful programs on HGTV and learn so many cost saving ideas on how to fix up our home.

    Richard Selg on April 5, 2008 at 10:33 pm
46. Wow!!! The HGTV Green Home is just as much a Dream Home. It’s beautiful…and hopefully will grow the interest of America in eco-friendly homes. Thanks HGTV!!!

    Dorema C. on April 11, 2008 at 1:07 pm
47. Love the home. Love the fact that it is not a huge mansion! Green living is the way to go,and to save our planet for the next generations.
    We have grandchildren that we would leave our planet to. Anything we can all do in our own lives to protect the environment, and improve the damage already done….we all need to do. The ideas used in this home, are something we can all do! Would love to retire to this home!

    Lori on April 12, 2008 at 6:34 pm
48. I tihkn this is kinda misleading just so you all know the house is not ON Hilton Head Island and its really not that close to it…. I live on the island the Traditions is about 40 minutes away on the outskirts of bluffton. Its really in the middle of nowhere but i guess they dont wanna tell you that.

    Megan on April 17, 2008 at 4:05 pm
49. I recall Vic Cook from the Extreme homes series (hgtv,2003)who lives in Indiana, conceived and built the “giant”.The giant provides for an off-the-grid lifestyle, and offers many of the eco-friendly principles found in the green home project.When I first saw the giant on television I felt that this would be the way of the future.That show 5 years ago changed my life, because I have always embraced the reduce, reuse, recycle mantra. After seeing Mr. Cooks’ “giant” on hgtv I was convinced that this way of living is for me, and judging by the amount of interst in the growing green movement I see am not alone. So to all my fellow green heads out there I encourage you to check out Vic Cooks “the giant”(episode EXT-401)
    and also drop by his web site @ giantearthship.com
    to become informed and inspired to discover the possibilties of this brave new world! see you all soon in Tradition HH

    Anthony Wright on April 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm
50. I would love to win this beautiful home, my daughter lives with me so both of us would enjoy it.

    Christine Henderson on April 24, 2008 at 2:12 pm