Plans for Sustainable Houses

	Direct from the Designers features an innovative collection of best-selling online house plans, home plans and floor plans including an exclusive collection of ENERGY STAR house plans direct from the leading designers and architects in the United States. They also offer a comprehensive resource center called Green Living where consumers and builders can learn about the latest sustainable interior and exterior home building products and get inspiring green home design ideas and tips.
	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.
	With a growing collection of plans and information about building geodesic and geometric domes including a dome builders forum if you have any questions or problems.
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
StrawBalePlans.com	The $20,000 estimate to build this small home includes the cost of the foundation, walls, bales, mesh, plaster, roof, interior walls, so everything that makes up the structure. It also includes $2,000 as an initial budget for finish flooring, cabinetry, appliances, wiring, plumbing and more.
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
YourSolarHousePlan.com	Our passive solar mapping means our house floor plans are location specific & the first step to the security of a zero energy home.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Earthlog Equity Group	Custom designed earth sheltered home plans from Earthlog.
Earthbag House Plans
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.
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)

Eco House Plans (Various styles) - Free Listings
America's Best House Plans Passive solar house plans	Most of our plans in this category are Energy Star® approved.
Rick Thompson Passive solar house plans	Solar house plans with front, rear and side solar orientation.
Green Plan Homes Energy Star approved plans	Green house plans ready to be built anywhere. Our super-insulated, energy star approved house designs w/ passive solar heating/cooling, rainwater harvesting, radiant heat, and more.
Yellow Blue Designs Sustainable home plans	We offer: eco-friendly house plans, passive solar, active solar, barrier free, drain water heat recovery, liquid solar thermal.