More eco-mansions! Tour the Wired LivingHome

Eco-mansions are a bit of a paradox, but are also apparently attention-getting ways to showcase green living possibilities. Now, the first Wired LivingHome -- a green, pre-fab home built in just 2 1/2 days -- is gonna open its doors to the eco-curious for 3 weekends of tours.

According to the website, the LEED-certified home "allows luxury and the environment to live together in harmony" -- if you have $4 million to spend on making this harmonious synergy happen in an exclusive enclave of Brentwood. Hydrogen-powered BMW? Check. Lots and lots of the latest expensive tech and gadgets? Check. Possible for the average eco-Jane to aspire to? Um, not really.

But Wired LivingHome's a showcase, not an everyperson home. And mansion's are hardly necessary to go green -- something to keep in mind for anyone who thinks becoming an environmentalist's an impossibly expensive proposition.

So treat the tour, if you go, as a sort of eco-science fair. Tours happen Thu. - Sun. from Oct. 27 - Nov. 11, but tickets go on sale tomorrow, Oct. 8. Cost: $35 in advance and $40 at the door (Update: The tours got moved back a week; Tickets are now only available online for $35), which includes free parking at the LUXE where the tour kicks off, an audio tour of the home, and a 1-year subscription to WIRED magazine. An unspecified portion of the proceeds will got to Global Green and Enterprise.

Relatedly: Project7ten, another LEED-certified home, opens for tours Oct. 11.

Update, 11/6/07: I toured the Wired LivingHome! Pictures and more here.

Image courtesy of Wired