solar...u.k.? what u.k is this with sun?

iHome :)

Unless he has an extended family that is 7 bedrooms not in use and presumably being heated in the winter or cooled in the summer, wait this is the UK, so no cooling. Having 17,000 trees to use for fuel, talk about deforestation of the "Rain Forest", not to mention what would happen if the Spotted Owl sets up home in some of those trees. And burning wood chips to heat a biomass boiler... how many pollutants from the smoke floating into the atmosphere is being created. Has Ives enough Carbon Credits from Al Gore's venture to give this project a Green Thumbs Up and a preventor of Global Warming? Will he still have that residence in Twin Peaks, CA? If yes, so two homes to heat and cool and neither is the primary and only residence? Not to mention the fact that just to meet up in person, he'll have to fly across the Atlantic and all the way across the US for his job? Well at least he has a green auto in his Aston-Martin... what kind of gas mileage does that get again???

Why am I so hard on the man??? I'm not!!! I am just taking a cue from Al Gore and other Hollywood liberal elitist types and informing Ives that his lifestyle is not so green after all. I mean Al Gore and Hollywood liberal types have no problem in telling "us" what car to drive, what light bulbs to use, how much toilet paper to use, etc., etc. I figure, fair is fair!

But I'm sure he'll have a nice "flat" to call home, regardless of the environment harm to the world it will do.

 Bitter, twisted, cynical - and that's just me...

Lives in Twin Peaks, CA? Doesn't seem likely -- it's a long drive to Cupertino. Perhaps you meant the "Twin Peaks" neighborhood of San Francisco?

And by "he", I mean the author of that Telegraph article, not Andy Space. :)

To the anonymous poster above criticizing the green credentials of wood-burning - modern wood-burning stoves and boilers are about as green as it gets, and generate minimal pollution due to secondary and tertiary burn technologies. Do your homework.

so if it is in the south west, i would imagine it will be where all the celebs and rich people live (the cotswolds - where i live), which is good because i may run into him and have a chat in the local pub, or in the store. cannot wait to meet my design hero.

To the rambling 9to5Mac Noob:

I won't mince words, you are an idiot.

Ive is retrofitting the estate to be extremely green, something someone else buying the property probably would not do, yet you attack him individually. It's one thing to question the super weathly owning multiple and/or large homes, but to critize those of them that choose to use their fortunes to retrofit a home is counter productive to making our civilization less damaging to the natural enviroment.

We should encourage behavior like Ive's. We should complain about all those capable of such acts that fail to take them. Imagine if the royal family or the Vatican did something similar to all the property they hold.

green excess is still excess
excess is the problem
green excess is not going to save the world
less is better
green less is best

I am sure he's going to spend a lot of time in his UK residence. Not much going on in Cupertino

Um, so yeah, I don't mean to remove your rose-colored glasses, but in case you didn't know, you can "go green" all you want, but it will never make a bit of difference, not one iota. At any given moment, there are thousands of jets flying in the air over the US. Each one pumping tons of waste into levels of the atmosphere your old, rusty Volvo can only dream of polluting. And do you think you can shut down the airline industry, or make it go "green"... ha! fat chance. So I say, if you have the money to afford the gas, and can buy an aston martin that sips it like a frat boy sips beer, then do it. either way, we will all get skin cancer, asthma, and the world will rot. So in the meantime have some fun, and enjoy what little life there is left... heck lend the aston to the wife to go pick up the groceries... lord knows she deserves it... Oh, and as for the "our children" argument... how 'bout showing them how to have some fun too... guys, leave the wife at home sometimes, and bring the kid along for the ride... everybody loves a rocket. And finally, to the Ives, I say fly first class all the way, you only have one ride. Cheers!

You'd never get a house like that one in the picture for £2.5 million. More like £25 million.

£2.5 mil can get you a very nice flat in South Kensington, but for a house like that in the UK is more like £25 million, Jobs pays his boy well