The walls, roof, base of the home and floor are basic structure of your home. The basic structure should be strong and capable of providing strength to the remaining parts of your home. The structure should be strong enough that will not deteriorate for decades. The windows and ventilators are most important part of your home. This results in decreased utilization of air conditioner, which ultimately reduces the cost of your electric bill. Proper painting of walls and roofs will further help you in extra savings on electric bills. You can also cover your windows with synthetic/plastic coatings to provide additional insulation. Go for onetime expense and purchase automatic lights that have timers and can even sense the right time to be switched off on their own. Use your washing machine or dishwasher only when you have piled up items that justify cost of electricity. Otherwise wash them manually and save money. Let the dishes dry up in air instead of using a dryer. We must make sure that these places are properly sealed to conserve heat and energy. We can also add insulation to our basements to ensure heat conservation. One way to know whether our basements have leaks or not, is to look for spider webs. If there are webs, there are leaks! We should not turn on our garage heating system all the time. This perfectly environment friendly electricity production method can be used to empower houses. Even in remote areas people uses their own small turbines, on foundations and waterfalls, which are sufficient for their energy requirements. Energy produced through water is called hydropower. An alternative to gas used at homes, is biogas, which is produced by burning various organic matters in the absence of oxygen. All rooms have standardized temperature unlike the uneven temperatures in ordinary houses. Discuss these issues with your contractor and architect, ensure that your house is properly ventilated and is made up of bricks that contain high amount of thermal mass. Bricks rebound heat to the eternal environment and absorb the remaining, keeping the house safe from becoming too hot or too cold.