A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” – American Indian saying
AN EXCITING CHANCE TO
LIVE INDEPENDENT –
WHILE SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT
Uniquely Practical – Practically Unique for… $100!!?
Bringing you closer to a happier, healthier Mother Earth
Right in your own front yard.
Break Away From The Pack With This Amazing
Green Home
The closer you look, the more you’ll love it. And because it’s now Solar Panel Powered (not shown), your electric and heating/air conditioning bills total out to… a whopping $0.00 annually.
Just imagine…
You’ve been working all day. That boss of yours just won’t let up! Meetings, assignments, deadlines – how on earth can he expect one person to juggle all that?
You long to give him a long glare that says, “You’re kidding, right?” But so far… nope. You don’t dare. Instead you just accept the extra work with a jaw-grinding smile.
Finally, the clock strikes Quitting Time.
Dedicated employee that you are, you put in the extra ten minutes finishing up that one assignment so it’ll be on Boss’s desk when he gets in next morning. Give yourself one Atsa-Way.
Out the door you hurry – and gasp as the summer air slams you like a wall of hot jello.
You climb into your oven-hot car and road-rage your way home. Can’t wait to get out of this cursed professional costume. Shorts and t-shirt, here you come!
Finally, dinner over, dishes clean – you climb up the outside stairs to your roof, walk barefoot across the cool clover-grass and settle into a comfy hammock. Ahhhh, yes!
The trees reach up almost level with you, creating a pleasant illusion of a tree house. Tucked above those every-day go-here, do-this demands, you feel like you’re in another land, high above the daily grind.
The Most Destructive Possession You Can Have Is a Closed Mind
If you’ve ever been to a big city in summer, you’ve experienced that ugly brown haze hanging heavy in the air. Ever follow a big loaded dump truck? Or an old transit bus? This is air pollution you can see.
Instead you can enjoy the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay… Fresh rockfish. Fried oysters. Steamed crabs. And shrimp galore – all treats for the gods.
Fishing, boating and swimming – life on the Bay is good, you know?
But the Bay’s harvest has dropped off sharply in these past years. Fishermen and crabbers tell you first-hand how the Chesapeake’s treasured fish and shellfish populations are growing scarcer and scarcer.
For more information about the modern-day effects of pollution, sign up for your free Report, “Composting Today”. You’ll also receive interesting yet information-laden emails from time to time… plus you’ll be the first to know when this wonderful Green Home comes available.
Why not sign up now – while you’re thinking about it. Hey – this eco-friendly house near the Bay might just be yours for just $100.
Savor The Ultimate In Living Green
Three bedrooms. Fireplace. Ceiling fans. Energy-conserving appliances. Two pantries. Jacuzzi. Two and a half bathrooms. Two-car garage. Carved mahogany front door. Ground-source heat pump. Well and septic. ADA-compliant (mostly). And much, much more – simply click the “Blueprint” tab to see it all.
** Warning: People Who Don’t Care
About Living Green
Won’t Like It Here **
When you check out all of this home’s “living green” innovations, you’ll be amazed.
The Sun-Exposed Outer Walls
Between Windows Have
Vertical Green Plant Panels.
| The walls between the windows have hanging panels made from Non-Woven Landscaping Fabric, a durable fabric specially designed to wick water to the soil.
Hanging two feet out from the actual house’s walls so the air can circulate, each panel has vertical pockets for whatever plants suit your taste. Flowers? Petunias, impatience, pansies, forget-me-nots – it’s up to you. Vegetable plants? Cherry tomatoes, green beans, chives, spearmint, lettuce, even strawberries – whatever you like. Bushes or trees? Okay, let’s get real. These panel-pockets are about 6″ wide by 9″ high by 3″ back-to-front. Forget trees or bushes. But they’re just right for Lily-of-the-Valley or Basil! |
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The Roof Is Designed As A Patio –
Life doesn’t get any better than an
old-fashioned
Crab feast on your Roof.
If the season is on, you must take advantage of the local specialty: Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs. Caught that very morning, on your table that evening – a feast fit for royalty.
Steamed, dusted with just the right amount of Old Bay seasoning, served on old newspapers that can wrap around discarded shells for easy cleanup…
This roof has been carefully designed –
with a very innovative irrigation and drainage system.
Called an underground drip irrigation system, excess water drips off the roof and irrigates the hanging garden plants outside your walls.
Using either a timer or (when the world seems totally soaked-swamped) a unique flap-barrier system that senses when it’s too wet and over-rides the timer, your plants receive just the right amount of watering.
Leftover water from that? No, drowning your pretty pocket-plantings is not going to happen because excess water irrigates a “rain garden” planting area surrounding the base of your home.
After that, any runoff is captured in the underground ‘moat’ surrounding your home. Saves big-time on well water.
There are several other ways that water is recycled here… would you believe that water is recycled up to four times before being released into the ground? Astonishing!
Your green roof is a 53,000 square foot area that receives an average of 130,900 gallons of rainwater per year, of which 80,000 gallons are recycled four times before being lost to the subsurface soils within our irrigation scheme.
No wasted water here.
This “secret” underground moat serves your heat pump (aka Ground Source Heat Pump) piping for greater efficiency and acts as a reservoir for all the onsite irrigation systems – and here these irrigation systems would water your yard plants – trees, lawn, bushes, flowers, etc.
And if the weather is too dry, your irrigation system taps into the underground ‘moat’, then well water and finally (only when absolutely necessary), the onsite pond for watering your poor thirsty greenery.
Don’t Forget Those Wonderful Solar Panels!
These are the “magic wand” that provide your independence from utility bills. They give long-term freedom from paying another sky-high electric bill.
Here’s how it works: SMECO pays you when the sun shines… and you pay SMECO when the sun doesn’t shine!
These panels are specially designed to make sure you’re not paying SMECO for year after year after year.
SMECO’s benefit? They use your house to help meet their requirement where a specific x% of their power production comes from “clean power producers” – no carbon- or nuclear-based electricity production.
The driveway and walkways
These have been designed to prevent runoff, using instead sturdy ground plants such as Irish Moss and clover within a strong plastic grid system that allows heavily-loaded traffic such as cement mixers or moving vans.
Careful, ladies – not high-heel friendly; you’ll need to carry your heels over this lawn-like surface.
Front Yard Pond
This peaceful micro-environment not only helps manage excess water runoff; they also attract local flora and fauna.
Imagine sitting in the living room, watching wildlife such as dragonflies, frogs, nesting ducks – even an occasional Great Blue Heron, as they enjoy life.
Right in your own front yard.
Look! I Saved the Best News For Last
What would you say if I said you have a chance to own this incredible Green Home for… $100? No joke.
Once we break ground and set the basic wooden frame with roofing in place, this very house goes up for Raffle, to the specified Charity*
Here’s where you come in. Raffle tickets go on sale. And because you’re already on our email list… you get first shot!
90 days later, the Green Home is completed, ready for the Grand Prize Winner!* And from this retreat you can also discover one of the best-kept secrets in this area: fossils. You can learn all about them from the near-by Calvert County Marine Museum.
Get Yourself A Mortgage-Free Home*
Bonus: You can actually watch as the Green Home’s built and landscaped. The house will be move-in-ready for our lucky Raffle winner.
“Oh my god, this is the house of the future! – Shirley Ellis, Hollywood, Maryland
Talk About A Winning Decision! You Can…
Have A Chance to Own Your Dream Home.
Donate to Charity.
Save the Environment.
Okay, say you already have a house. Think vacation get-away home! “Be the change you want to see in this world” – Gandhi
Less Bills. More Holiday.
Escape your hectic every-say drudgery in this home where the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River and the Patuxent River come together.
Bringing you closer to a happier, healthier Mother Earth And from this retreat you can also discover one of the best-kept secrets in this area: fossils. You can learn all about them from the near-by Calvert County Marine Museum. Perfectly preserved even after millions of years. And savor the succulent cuisine in this bayside area: Oysters. Scallops. Rockfish and more – all so fresh they’re almost flopping off your plate. Our Southern Maryland cook-out: Chesapeake Bay crabs and beer!
Take Out Your Budget-Book.
Note down all the deductions for water/sewer. Electricity. Heating/cooling. Yikes! Now you have to divide what’s left over between what you need this coming month for survival – and paying off your credit cards. Ooops! Almost forgot the biggest budget-buster of all – that mortgage/rent payment.*
Never Quite Comes Out to As Much As You’d Hoped, Does It?
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Well, win this Raffle and you can:
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Okay, now answer this: if you didn’t pay those bills and instead could keep that money yourself, what would that do to your family’s standard of living?
Solar Panels Save Your Budget
What Would You Do That You Couldn’t Afford Today?
Upgrade your car? Treat everyone to a dream vacation? Put the kids in a better school? Let one of you quit their job and stay home? Maybe start up that business you’ve always dreamed about.
Not Your Every-Day Environmentally-Conscious House
Bonus: You can actually watch this house being built. See it grow from ground-breaking to an insulated concrete slab to a wooden skeleton-frame and on to full-blown Green Home
Simply check in with the House Building section of this website every week to see the photos. You’ll be astounded at the innovative systems we’re setting in place.
So Get Your Name On Our List of First-To-Know
P.S. – Wait! In case you should miss out on this first $100 house — !This Green Home is only the first we’re planning on building to raffle off. That means more Charity Raffles coming up. So you’ll have more chances to win in a new Charity Raffle later on.
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Each Charity Raffle begins once we’ve framed up and installed the roofing on the next Green Home
Prizes For The Runners-Up
There will be either Raffle tickets to another up-coming Green Home’s Raffle or cash-type money (your choice) awarded to TEN Runners-Up who entered this Raffle! Here’s the deal:
- The second place winner receives ten $100 Raffle tickets towards an upcoming Raffle – or $1,000.
- The third place winner gets nine $100 Raffle tickets or $900.
- The fourth place winner gets eight $100 Raffle tickets or $800.
- Fifth gets seven tickets or $700.
- And so on – right down to the eleventh place winner of this Raffle who walks away with one free $100 Raffle ticket that automatically guarantees entry in the next Raffle or $100, whichever.
Living room view of the Ponds
P.P.S. – These Eco-Houses are not available any other way but through these Charity Raffles. Well, okay. If you happen to have $870,405.69 or so ready up-front to invest in building this house on your land, we might be able to oblige. 
But if you’re not that, uh, generously endowed… Be Sure to Join Today!
* Winner receives title to the house free and clear. Other expenses such as closing costs, taxes, insurance, etc. are the responsibility of winner/owner. The non-profit charity has only 90 days for the raffle period under Maryland Regulations. The Green Home will be completed before the 90-day period is up. After the charity picks the grand prize winner, they have an additional 90 days to close on the title transfer in accordance to Maryland State regulations. So it’s 180 days between the start of the raffle and closing.
"Fishing, boating and swimming – life on the Bay is good, you know?"