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sustainable: Where do you really live? - 04/15/09 09:46 PM
Where you live is a good place to start looking at sustainability in our lives, in more ways than one. The closer you live to where you work the less distance you have to commute. One of the reasons New York City is actually a pretty green city is that so many people live in small apartments and walk or use public transit to get around. Many people in large metropolitan areas with good transit systems do not own automobiles. If they need to go somewhere they want to drive to, they rent a car.
Many of the people reading this … (5 comments)
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sustainable: Don't Forget to Turn Off the Lights! EARTH HOUR 2009 - 03/19/09 09:09 PM
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message grew into a global movement Fifty million people turned off their lights to show their support for sustainablility. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome's Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.
On March 28, at 8:30 pm local time, one billion people will go dark for Earth Hour. World Wildlife Fund is asking individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world to turn off their … (7 comments)
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sustainable: Cradle to Cradle Thinking - 12/28/08 02:21 PM
In 2003 William McDonough wrote, "Why not shift the focus of green design from managing the environmental impact of a destructive system to creating buildings and materials that generate wholly positive effects for people and nature." He suggests that we might begin to consider a shift to good design rather than just green design. As an example, he points to a highly rated green built building in which the air quality was worse than the outdoor air. Although great pains had been taken to seal the building from outdoor air leaks and it had great insulation and was very energy efficient, no … (5 comments)
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sustainable: Samuel Mockbee and an Architechture of Decency - 10/09/08 02:33 AM
Given the current confusion in the housing market, I found myself looking for a different way to view the the context of the places we live. I picked up a book I have not looked at for a while RURAL STUDIO
It tells the story of a teacher, his students and a poor community in Alabama. The teacher is Samuel Mockbee and the students are his architecture students at Auburn University. The introduction explains that Mockbee believes that his profession has an ehical responsibility to improve living conditions for the poor. To that end, he inspired his students to create real buildings … (3 comments)
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sustainable: It Ain't Easy Being Green - 12/17/06 10:45 PM
Finding the perfect green elements in a home is akin to the search for the holy grail. There are many layers of considerations that must be mulled through. Nothing is necessarily the perfectmaterial for any given home.
What is the percentage of post consumer recycled content?Is the embodied energy involved in getting to me less than the total embodied energy of another product that may have less post consumer recyceld material?Does it replace a more harmful product?Is it appropriate for my climate?How durable is it?Is it less toxic than other materials I could use?Is it salvaged?Does it meet my needs?Does it help … (2 comments)
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Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC
Albuquerque,
NM
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Address: 6700 Jefferson NE , Suite C-2, Albuquerque, NM, 87109
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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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