Everyone is aware of the "green" trend that has taken hold in most areas of American life, including building construction and how we make use of our homes. The number of new ideas to make our homes more environmentally-friendly seems to increase every day. Some of these ideas are very good ones, some are very good in theory but less than ideal in practice (composting toilets come to mind), some seem wacky (again, composting toilets come to mind), and some ideas seem so simultaneously simple and brilliant that it causes you to smack yourself on the head and say, "Why didn't I think of that!"
Well, I don't have any examples to illustrate the simple and brilliant, but I do have one to illustrate simple and thought-provoking. Take a look at the toilet in the photo.
Note that the bathroom sink is
part of the toilet tank. How cool is that? Who thinks of these things? Saving water and saving space and saving resources simultaneously! How could you get more green?