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Interesting Articles About Green Building
Save the Icing for Last
by Alex Wilson
BuildingGreen.com, May 1, 2009
Before considering high-profile features, such as wind turbines and photovoltaic arrays, we should focus on the basics of green building.
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Provided with permission of BuildingGreen.com, from the editors of Environmental Building News.
The American House: Where Did We Go Wrong?
By Kevin Ireton
Editor, Fine Homebuilding
The houses we build today evolved in response to the availability of cheap fossil fuels. That's why you can routinely find new houses in Texas with air-conditioning systems installed in uninsulated, 140° attics and homes in New England with no windows on the south side.
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Kevin Ireton is the editor of Fine
Homebuilding. Reprinted with permission.
Is
Green Building Too Expensive?
By Kevin Ireton
Editor, Fine Homebuilding
My wife and I decided not to have children. We just couldn’t
make the numbers work. From prenatal care through college tuition,
we were looking at half a million dollars. Minimum. And it
would be 25 years before that investment would even begin to
show a return, let alone pay us back. Kids made no sense.
I’m joking, of course. Looking just at the monetary cost of having kids
not only ignores other costs – a parent’s time, for instance – but
more important, it fails to account for the tremendous emotional rewards paid
out over a lifetime. No one in their right mind would decide whether to have
children based solely on the financial equation. The issue is more complicated.
So is green building.
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Kevin Ireton is the editor of Fine
Homebuilding. Reprinted with permission.
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