It's about the future

This project has been in the works for over 40 years. It began while I, as a small boy worked alognside my Dad and uncle to build our family's cabin in the Smokies. It grew while my Boyscout leaders invested their time and energy to teach us a love of nature and God's physical world. It crept along while I discovered a love of the sciences at MHS and UT. It blossomed at UT, protesting for the Snail Darter with the UT Environmental Coalition. As a Co-op Chemical Engineering student at Tennessee Eastman Company, I learned how to use Chemical Engineering to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Today, the problem of climate change is larger than any of us could have imagined years ago. We choose to be a part of it's sloution too.

Now, we prepare to break ground on our dream home. We hope it will clearly show our respect for God's gift to us all in these beautiful East Tennessee hills. We hope it will take full use of the sciences. We know it will represent the compromises that are the essence of good engineering. We hope to be leaders in the important field of green building, but we are not fanatics. We would like to build a green home that is simply an early adoption of techniques that become commonplace within the next few years.
Check back from time to time to see how we are progressing.