Yeah, the house might not create raving environmentalists from young children (any more than playing spacecraft with cardboard boxes or model rockets will make someone an astronaut), but at least the playhouse will create a “comfort level” and awareness of the possibilities such that when the kids become adults and are out looking for their own homes, the “alternate energy”/”sustainable living” option won’t be so strange for them.

I’m a former science teacher–and trying to provide useful “illustrations” to get the kids interested in things like this is tough. (If I were still in a classroom, I might consider buying the thing for the classroom for “science demonstrations”!)

Thanks for finding this and showing this to us.

The dollhouse set might be one for us to think about. I believe that having real-life everyday examples of sustainable living is better than just having pictures and toys, but sometimes that isn’t quite possible. Again, we live in an apartment, where we don’t get our power from the wind or the sun. Sometimes, books, toys, and pictures are all we have to expose our children to other ways of living, thinking, and ideas. People didn’t grow up to be astronauts living like one as a child. They imagined through books, toys, and their own thoughts. However, when it does become a possibility and reality, our children can gain much more from the experience.

Thanks for the review.