Earth Day reminds us that there is no better time to raise your conciousness about the environment and everything ‘green.’  Start thinking about where you live, what you drive and what you drink and how it impacts your surroundings. Fortunately, ‘green’ can also mean Luxury and Style. With that in mind here are three suggestions for your environmentaly aware future.

Green/Luxury Living: Veer Towers (Las Vegas)
Veer Towers is the only purely residential development in CityCenter, an 18-million-square-foot metropolis and one of the world’s largest sustainable communities. Veer Towers, which offers homeowners a perfect balance of luxury, sustainability and quality of life, is a masterful translation of energy and excitement into physical form; Veer Towers’ two 37-story glass towers shimmer day and night. Inclined at five-degree angles – a feature celebrated by the development’s name – the towers seem to dance with each other.
 
Designed by famed architect Helmut Jahn, each tower houses approximately 335 modern condominium residences. CityCenter has earned LEED® Gold certification for ARIA, Vdara, Crystals, Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas and Veer Towers, marking the highest LEED achievement by any hotel, retail district or residential development in Las Vegas.

– $350,000 for a studio

Green/Luxury Drinking: 2008 Cade Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 
CADE (owned by PlumpJack Group) is California’s first winery estate to be awarded the coveted LEED Gold certification for the entire property – including the hospitality building, caves, and production facility.  CADE is providing a sustainable model of tourism through the architecture, the wines, as well as the amenities offered. 
 
Among the state-of-the-art grape growing and winemaking innovations, CADE utilizes solar power, organic farming methods and other “green” practices in both wine production and daily operations. Robert Parker recently gave this Estate Cab 98 points.

 – $135  (98+ from Robert Parker)

Green/Luxury Driving: The Tesla Roadster
The Roadster is the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production BEV (all-electric) to travel more than 200 miles per charge. According to the U.S. EPA, the Roadster can travel 244 miles on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack, and can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds. The Roadster’s efficiency, as of September 2008, was reported as 120 mpg. As an electric vehicle, the Roadster also qualifies for several government incentives in many nations.

– Base price – $109,000