What Are You Wearing For St. Patrick's Day?
Green Builders should be wearing their colors today, right? I hope so. I also hope they're remembering why we do it. In the Kalamazoo area, Green Building should be focused on home performance. Actually, any Green Building anywhere should be focused on the performance of the home. The building scientist have been preaching that for decades. Unfortunately, what gets covered in the press are accessories, the expensive stuff. Solar and wind power, to name a few.
Read this: http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-007-prioritizing-green2014it-s-the-energy-stupid?full_view=1. I make this required reading when discussing a project with clients. I'll highlight the important points if they would like, but this is what we want to achieve, energy conservation.
I also have them read this entry: http://blog.coastlinebuilding.com/2008/02/28/wheres-the-heat.aspx
Prince Charles gets it. From a sidebar in the above link:
"In the foreword to a green supplement in the magazine House & Garden, the Prince wrote: 'Why, I must ask, does being 'green' mean building with glass and steel and concrete and then adding wind turbines, solar panels, water heaters, sedum roofs, glass atria - all the paraphernalia of a new 'green ...' "
If you read the entire article, the author, Joe Lstiburek, comes down on the points system for Green Building. He's right in a lot of ways--why should we get points for doing what a building should do anyway? However, if we don't rate homes, Greenwashing will become epidemic.
So I wear my Green colors proudly today, St Patrick, Patron of High Performance Homes.
Read this: http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-007-prioritizing-green2014it-s-the-energy-stupid?full_view=1. I make this required reading when discussing a project with clients. I'll highlight the important points if they would like, but this is what we want to achieve, energy conservation.
I also have them read this entry: http://blog.coastlinebuilding.com/2008/02/28/wheres-the-heat.aspx
Prince Charles gets it. From a sidebar in the above link:
"In the foreword to a green supplement in the magazine House & Garden, the Prince wrote: 'Why, I must ask, does being 'green' mean building with glass and steel and concrete and then adding wind turbines, solar panels, water heaters, sedum roofs, glass atria - all the paraphernalia of a new 'green ...' "
If you read the entire article, the author, Joe Lstiburek, comes down on the points system for Green Building. He's right in a lot of ways--why should we get points for doing what a building should do anyway? However, if we don't rate homes, Greenwashing will become epidemic.
So I wear my Green colors proudly today, St Patrick, Patron of High Performance Homes.
Posted by COASTLINE BUILDING at 3/17/2009 10:36 AM 
Categories: Energy
Tags: green building green builders kalamazoo green washing solar panels
Categories: Energy
Tags: green building green builders kalamazoo green washing solar panels
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You are right!
This is a cool post because it goes to the heart of the problem facing green builders today . . . measurement. If we don't get this right and get the great majority to understand and agree, "greenwashing" will subvert all our efforts to make a real difference.
Thanks for the relevant notes on this issue . . .
A dedicated green builder
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