Imagine the traditional gingerbread home with a host of modern features including wind-turbines, solar panels, geo-thermal pumps, passive solar design, water catchment systems and a xeriscope garden.
Who says that environmentalism can’t taste delicious and be sustainable? The second annual Bake For A Change competition, launched from Vancouver, Canada, encourages bakers to construct eco-friendly gingerbread houses over the holiday season. Described as a, ‘… design competition that combines eco and spice and everything nice’.
In 2007, Bake For a Change founder David Semeniuk, received 18 entries from North America and as far away as the UK. The 2007 Bake For A Change winners were Maria Hawton and Mead and Gavin Harper for their green gingerbread house which included solar panels, rainwater catchment, a living roof, a recycled car tire foundation, reed bed sewage system and a geo thermal heat pump.
To enter Bake For A Change 2008, eco-gingerbread house submissions must be completely edible, have at least four identifiable sustainable building design elements, and each house must include a minimum of a floor, a door, four walls, a roof, and two windows.
The deadline is 12 a.m. (PST) on December 31, 2008.
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Bake For A Change: www.BakeForAChange.com
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