Smart Home: Green + Wired August 20, 2011

The "Greenest Home in Chicago" is back with new gadgets and inventive ways to live green! The Smart Home, a fully functioning, eco-friendly home on the Museum's grounds, is a must-see exhibit for anyone who wants their home, and life, to be smarter, more efficient and more in tune with the environment than it is today. The Smart Home has been remade for 2011 to simultaneously bring you back to the past and forward to the not-too-distant future. Scout, a Chicago interior furnishing store, brings its specialty touch for refurbishing and reviving pieces from government and education buildings into a truly eco-friendly and stylish decor. Meanwhile, Gizmodo shares the cutting-edge technology that we'll soon be using to live, play and relax at home. Appropriate for this mix of the new and old, the Museum has also paired some of Gizmodo's newest gadgets with some of their vintage counterparts from within the Museum's collections. All together, this fusion shows how to make the most of existing materials while searching for the most efficient in new technology. It all comes together in the home that has shown more than 250,000 guests the ways, big and small, to make eco-friendly living a part of everyday life.