You've probably heard the old axiom that your home will be the number one monetary expense of your life. When you think about this statement, you most likely think about the purchase price of the home, which is obviously going to be a relatively large number, but there are many more costs associated with home ownership than just the price. Sometimes these additional expenses – energy bills for example – can be shockingly high over time, but like the slow leak of a faucet, they may go unnoticed for a long time. This is where KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0 swoops in, like the Red Cross does for catastrophe victims, to put a “green” tourniquet on your house's energy-related hemorrhaging.

KB Home is a Fortune 500 home-building company based in Los Angeles. Its ZeroHouse 2.0 (also referred to as a “net-zero” green home), from all outward appearances, looks like an ordinary suburban home. Engineered to actually produce the same or similar amount of energy as it uses, KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0 is chock full of environmentally friendly, energy-efficient appliances, electrical fixtures and lighting power sources. These renewable energy innovations and money-saving features have earned KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0 certification from Energy Star and WaterSense.

When you take a closer look at KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0's interior and exterior aspects, details and attributes, you will likely notice some of the home's cost efficient components, such as solar panels and low-flush toilets. And every one of the home's windows boast with dual-pane construction, an incredibly efficient feature that contributes to your energy and financial savings.

Some of the other built-in amenities common to KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0 include, but are not limited to, a solar-powered hot water system with an 80-gallon storage tank that is filled via rooftop water collectors, which KB says can save you close to 50,000 gallons of water annually; in addition to low-flush toilets, the ZeroHouse 2.0 offers faucets and shower heads engineered to utilize approximately 2 percent less H2O than their traditional and modern brothers and sisters.

Taken altogether, KB’s ZeroHouse 2.0 signals a new generation of efficiency that can help stem outflow of money that accompanies the outflow of energy!