 | The House Designers are the only online provider of house plans that ENERGY STAR® has approved to label as ENERGY STAR® certified. Our initiative with ENERGY STAR® is to encourage consumers to build green, energy efficient homes from the onset as soon as they break ground on their new home construction. |
Eco House Plans (Various styles) |
| Wise Home Design | The most affordable house plans you’ll find anywhere. You'll get a custom house design with the most energy efficient construction methods, and friendly, professional service. |
| Dream Green Home Plans |
Dream Green Homes is your complete source for alternative, sustainable, green or
natural home plans. |
LX & R Design New Mexico |
LX&R Design does not build homes. LX&R Design specializes in the design of
Custom Passive-Solar Adobe, Strawbale and Hybrid (Adobe /Strawbale) homes. LX&R
Design utilizes state-of-the-art design tools. |
| Architectural
House Plans |
Solar home plans,
strawbale home plans,
adobe house plans,
small home plans |
Earthship House Plans |
| High Thermal Mass Floorplan | A high thermal house allows for proper storage of heat or cooling and is very appropiate to avoid overheating in solar houses. |
Straw Bale House Plans |
Passive
Solar Straw Bale Arizona | Personal page with house plan, costs, construction pictures, materials used. |
| BaleWatch | Straw bale house plans for sale. |
| Straw Bale
House Plans | Blog focused on small, affordable and sustainable straw bale house plans. |
Solar House Plans |
| OurCoolHouse | Showcase site by the owner of this passive solar house that features earth shelter design, geothermal exchange, and energy recycling. Includes plans, documents the construction and explains the efficiency of the design. |
| SunPlans | Our passive solar house plans are inspired by the movement of the sun. |
| Enertia House Plans |
Designer and manufacturer of geo-solar homes. |
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North Carolina University Solar House | Solar home design, includes plans. |
| The Plan Collection - Passive Solar House Plans | Online seller of house plans with plans ranging from about 1000 sq ft to 2000 sq ft. |
Durango Passive Solar Homes Colorado | These passive solar home plans reflect efforts to create a simple, cost effective way for people to build beautiful, easy living, low maintenance, living spaces that are synchronized with the seasonal movement between the earth and sun. |
Solar Plans
New Mexico | These home plans are in the contemporary pueblo architectural style and are engineered for the cooler winter climates of the southwest. Typical energy savings and carbon reduction amounts are calculated based on past weather data for each home. Most of these homes have been built in north central New Mexico. |
Dome House Plans |
| Professional Dome Plans | A book of detailed shop drawings and simple formulas for building wood framed, 3v icosa, panelized geodesic domes. Includes text of entire book and sample plans for free download. |
Southeast Domes & SeaTreck Geodesics | Kits and plans. Building services. |
Guy Massicotte Canada | Geodesic domes plans and technologies. Plans et technologies de dômes géodésiques. Design service. Service de design. |
Plans for Small Houses |
| E Small House Plans | 5 Elements Design creates eco friendly small house plans that are available to order online as well as custom home plans. |
| The NotSoBigHouse | Site based on the book by the same name. Underlying all of the chapters of this book is a request that we look more closely at ourselves, at how we want to live, at what inspires us, and at what our planet needs to return to balance. House plans for sale. |
| Simple Home | Make your dream home a reality by purchasing one of our efficiently designed house plans. Bookshop. Ideas and information about building affordably and living simply, the key ideas behind our simple house plans. |
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The House Plan Shop | The House Plan Shop offers a collection of top-selling house plans and garage plans by North America's leading designers and architects. Economical, small house plans and green building tips. |
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The Simple House | Small sustainable house plans. |
Energy-efficient House Plans |
| SunTerra | About 20 plans of energy efficient homes from this builder. |
Deltec North Carolina |
Round houses. Explore our floor plan library and see how some of our homeowners have designed their Deltec round home. If you don’t see a plan that interests you contact us and we can email others to you for you to review. |
Earth Sheltered House Plans |
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Earthlog Equity Group | Custom designed earth sheltered home
plans from Earthlog. |
Earthbag House Plans |
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Earthbag House
Plans | Blog focused on small, affordable and sustainable
earthbag house plans. |
Books with Plans for Sustainable Homes |
| Energy Independent Housing | Energy Independent Housing is more than a set of blue prints for a solar home. Detailed plans and illustrations are presented that will enable the reader to construct the illustrated energy independent dwelling, however this book is best used as a construction guide for all kinds of energy independent housing. Also: Modular Home Kits |
Affordable Passive Solar Homes  | Low-cost,
compact designs (paperback) by Richard L Crowther. |
Online Tools & Software |
| Sustainable by Design | Free online tools to calculate solar window heat gain, sun path, sun position, sun angle, overhang design, |
| Energy-10 | Energy-10 is powerful design software that analyzes and illustrates the energy and cost savings that can be achieved through more than a dozen sustainable design strategies. (Sustainable Buildings Industry Council) |