Three Principles of the Slow Home Movement - 11/30/08 01:41 PM
John Brown is a registered architect, a real estate broker and a professor of architecture at the University of Calgary. He is also the founder of what he calls the Slow Home Movement. The idea is a shelter based version of the Slow Food Movement. While slow food aims to increase our awareness of the foods we eat and the way in in which their growth, preparation and consumption affects us, the Slow home Movement encourages home owners to focus on where and how they live. It argues that the predominant housing developments produced today are cookie cutter houses that are, … (5 comments)

Living walls Natural Air Filtration - 11/14/08 05:59 PM
The quality of our indoor air has declined to the point that poor air quality is fourth on a list of 31 environmental threats in the US, according to the EPA. "It is estimated that nearly 25% of US residents are affected by poor indoor air quality, either at the workplace or the home. Indoor air pollutants can be as diverse as toxic chemicals emitted from building materials and furnishings, combustion pollutants like carbon monoxide and toxic particles, and biological contaminants such as mold and bacteria."
A living wall is a vertical arrangement of plants and other organisms that naturally removes toxins and … (4 comments)

 
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not. 



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