This startup will replace old, rundown homes with ones that generate more energy than they use

Aro Homes, a company incubated at Eric Schmidt’s VC firm, will build net-zero, modular homes.

Housing is responsible for a huge chunk of global carbon emissions—nearly a quarter of it, by one estimate. That’s one of the reasons that the new startup Aro Homes exists: Every house it builds will have net-zero energy use. The houses are also designed to cut water use in half and shrink the amount of time needed for construction.

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