Lotus Founder Mitch Kapor Learns It Isn't Easy to Build Both Big and Green in Berkeley

You’ll likely recall how much flak Al Gore received (and probably continues to receive) once the size of his mammoth house was revealed, post-Inconvenient Truth (Snopes has some particularly good info on what’s been true and what hasn’t in talk about his house’s energy consumption, as well as this comparison to former President Bush‘s house) . But Gore lives just outside Nashville, not exactly an epicenter of the green movement. Not so with Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, who decided he wanted to build a gigantic mansion in Berkeley, California, albeit a green one.