Thankfully, Al Gore put his money where his mouth is and did an enormous rebuild on his house. It actually has a lot of LEED points now, after having put in systems for recycling rain/domestic grey water for non potable systems, solar panels, geothermal heating/cooling, etc etc. It's actually pretty cool, my company designs systems like this but on a much bigger, non-residential scale. I agree, Al Gore's ridiculous energy useage looked really bad, so I'm glad that something was done about it.