Eco-Housing

Housing for the Future

Prometheus has a long and proud history of providing finance for individuals and communities who are building energy efficient, low environmental impact and healthy homes. These take a number of forms, with rammed-earth, adobe, straw bale, cordwood and more conventional timber frame houses with strong passive solar design elements, high insulation values and other eco-features.

In our view houses with more affordable electricity and water bills, and that are made of healthier non-toxic and renewable building materials are the way of the future. If you are working and planning toward buying or building an eco-home you are welcome to consider applying to Prometheus for a loan.

Ebode - sustainable housing

ebode is New Zealand's newset and, we believe, most sustainable housing company. ebode aims to go far beyond energy efficency and 'tacked on'eco-technology to provide homes that have sustainability built in to every aspect of their design. more »

Tikokino Eco-Renovation

Gareth and Gine Dingle have relocated and eco-renovated an old villa onto their property in Tikokino, siting it to catch the sun, insulating to a high standard and incorporating a wood-stove with wetback, and solar water heating. more »

Nelson Eco Living

Michael North and Keryn Squires approached Prometheus late last year for finance to complete the final extensions to their eco-house. They had initially received a loan from us in 2004 for the main part of the house that they started building at that time on their 1.7 ha property in Todd Valley, Nelson. more »

Straw Bale in Gisborne

A Prometheus loan has helped a young couple, Sarah and Aaron Boyle, realise their dream of building a Straw Bale home on their rural property in Hexton, just outside Gisborne. The couple share a strong passion for the environment and wanted to live their lives as much in accord with that as possible. more »

New Earthsong Members

Joel Hildebrandt & Judy Lightstone had been involved in trying to create co-housing communities in California for over 15 years. It wasn't until they visited Earthsong Eco-neighbourhood in Waitakere that they found what they'd been looking for. more »

Waitati Lifestyle

Martin Bald approached us for a follow-up loan in 2007 to complete the energy efficient home he has been building on his 5-acre property in Waitati (Otago). All he needed to complete the house was funds for an approved septic tank system, additional plumbing and some finishing on the access road and electrical supply. more »

Celtic Roundhouse

Robina McCurdy and her partner Huckleberry Leonard started building their earth home in early 2005, with the help of a number of interns attending Robina's ecological building course at Tui Community in Golden Bay. more »

Eco-home in Geraldine

Rhys Taylor and Anne Griffiths have built stage one of a two-stage low visual impact home on their property in the Geraldine Downs with a number of eco-features that they were keen to have financed by a loan from Prometheus. more »

Energy efficiency at Lindisfarne

Duncan and Deborah Bayne used a loan from Prometheus to build an energy efficient home at the Lindisfarne Community, near Coromandel. more »

Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood

Earthsong is a pioneering urban community housing development based on a co-housing philosophy, employing eco-building principles and permaculture design in a medium-density urban environment. more »

Cordwood House

Carolyn Simon’s eco-house in Onekaka, Golden Bay, was unusual from the start, being built with walls whose core construction materials included pumice, recycled crushed glass and cordwood (firewood for the uninitiated). more »