Your (organic) fortune cookie reads: "Maintain your LivingHome and it will give you long life." Beyond implementing the zeroes of our sustainable building philosophy that result in your LivingHome, we add an additional zero—the elimination of ignorance—to help you understand, operate and maintain your home throughout its long life. If you own a Prius, like a number of us, you probably obsess about the monitor that tells you your milage in real-time and over time. Any system with feedback tends to improve so we worked with Lucid Design Group to create the LivingHomes building dashboard, which shows your energy, water, gas usage in your LivingHome — and, hopefully, the money, carbon and water you've saved. Click here to see the data on the first LivingHome

ANOTHER ISSUE: If not properly operated or maintained, any system can degrade over time. To insure that you continue to receive optimal savings and value, LivingHomes needs you to do a little regular upkeep (it's not a lot of work). To make it easy, we provide you with homeowner training and a Homeowner's Guide. The guide includes a simple, yet detailed series of "what to do's." It also introduces you to all the systems and equipment in your home, helping you to understand basic functionality as well as providing you with troubleshooting tips. Bob Villa meets Julia Butterfly — in one easy to use guide.