Wayland Patch 5/26/11: Patch Picks: Local Green Homes and Businesses. Consider features that reduce energy needs and costs in your home: Daylighting, light shelves and better insulation, for example. Among examples in the article, the home of Jackson Madnick in Wayland. Features: Creator of Pearl's Premium Ultra-Low Maintenance Grass, Jackson Madnick has been adding features to his home for over a decade. He now uses no electricity to heat his house in the winter yet on a January day it was a toasty 72 degrees. Almost all of the features have been installed by Madnick himself, including insulation in the walls from recycled fibers such as bluejeans, a heliostat on the roof which melts snow in key spots of the yard (including his wife's windshield), solar heating, thermal mass, daylighting and much more. The list is long and impressive. How to see it: Tours are available on Saturdays and must be scheduled in advance. Email Madnick here.