simple + green

Looks like we have a Green Celebrity update.

Apparently, Leonardo DiCaprio has purchased an apartment in an environmentally-friendly building in New York City.

According to this post, DiCaprio has paid an unknown amount for the luxury pad in the 263-unit eco-friendly Riverhouse complex.

DiCaprio’s new home, which overlooks the Hudson River, comes with programmable thermostats, a 24-hour fresh-filtered air system, a dog spa, media cafe and rooftop green landscaping.

The actor’s representative says, “Riverhouse is a prime example of how green technology is both accessible and achievable for new residential developments — it is a groundbreaking building.”

It was also built with non-pollutant materials and boasts solar-powered energy throughout. And according to another source, the building is so “green”, that even the corner bakery is organic:

Riverhouse, a 31-story condominium rising at the northern end of Battery Park City, has photovoltaic cells on the roof to convert sunlight into electricity, twice-filtered air in its apartments and its own $1 million wastewater treatment plant in the basement.

Even though I can’t afford it, and remain uninterested in leaving California, I can’t help but feel envious of folks who own these units.

In fact, it’s not even the luxury perks that sound enticing. I would feel so great to have what I consider luxuries: photovoltaic cells and solar energy, non-pollutant building materials, wastewater treatment (and I’d bet that this included a greywater system) not to mention the twice-filtered air.

The basics of an environmentally-friendly building sound like perks to me. Don’t they to you?

[editor's note: alright, I'm back a pretty much 100% after a week of a hellish virus! I don't plan on missing any future posts... ]