Great video from the other side….long on fear mongering, totally devoid of facts. It is this sort of spooky music, fast scene changing video that really does influence people, far more than, say, research. The NY Times has an interesting write up today of an “International Conference on Climate Change” not to be confused with the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” that one the Nobel Prize for its definative conclusion that Global warming IS a threat.
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The content is not terrible, the presentation, well, yeah…
Kind of tool time-ish, but props for effort and message. I myself hate plastics in any form. Plastic wood substitutes & decking is something I think is kinda souless. But decks take much wood, and the pasltic can be recycled content, so there is a case to be made. The price point can be good as well.
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There is a definate arguement for prefab hosuing being sustainable. Component housing that is built off site can often leverage economies of scale and reduce waste in ways that single job homebuilders cannot. And they do not have to be ugly, here is a very interesting German design with one of the better bookshelves I have ever seen: cool german prefab house
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Interesting piece in today’s Sunday Real Estate Section of the Chron on “Vegas Show Stopper” a 9,000 square foot monster built out in the desert with “green technology”. Can you really be green or sustainable with a SFH at 9,000 square feet? My answer is yes, hedged with a small aside:
WTF 9,000 SQUARE FEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess I would reconcile my philosophical meets reality take on this by saying that the house can be green, but not sustainable. You can input lots of green features in a place like this, like the gas driven heat pump that the article crows about. But green inputs does not sustainable make. It’s too plain big. I get the whole I need to prove something look at me and my big green house/car/schlong whatever…ok maybe a big green schlong isn’t something to look at. My point though is that just because you call something green doesn’t mean it’s better. Green is a color, a fad, something the corporate types have co-opted into their marketing lingo to sell you stuff. Sustainable is a way of living. And even if a project incorporates the latest in “green” features, the sheer size is self defeating.
Anyhow, article here if you want primary source.
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