I didn’t realize it until a few days ago, but green and sustainable gingerbread houses are definitely the “it” thing this season. Treehugger has written about them as have two other eco-concious sites Inhabitat and Grist, and even the New York Times got all excited about sustainable architecture represented in baked abodes.

Sadly, I didn’t have the time to put towards making my own version of a sustainable gingerbread house. But I’m still happy with the outcome. I guess I could lie and say that the candy canes are supposed to represent solar panels… but that wasn’t intentional.