Net-Zero-Energy Backyard Cottage Open House

Please Join Our Celebration of a Net-Zero-Energy Backyard Cottage! The Story of Karen's Cottage: When Karen Chapple, a planning professor from the College of Environmental Design, met with a team of students from Dr. Ashok Gadgil's Design for Sustainable Communities course, neither knew what was brewing. Karen discussed how her two-bedroom Berkeley home was too small for her constant stream of guests, her daughter, and an aging relative. The team of students was researching small homes as a means to create affordable and sustainable housing. The result was a net-zero-energy backyard cottage, a new model for shared affordable housing, a Clinton Global Initiative grant, and a new Berkeley startup. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and New Avenue Homes. Children and dogs welcome. Email to RSVP.