Construction Management Degrees has posted an interesting article on their take of the most eco-friendly homes. A couple of them are tiny houses, an interesting read, here is a brief introduction.
With the increasing importance and responsibility of saving the planet and all its natural resources, some individuals as well as companies have been thinking out of the box and creating innovative solutions to housing problems and the impact they have on our environment once constructed. Eco friendly or green homes have come a long way in just a short time frame. Continue reading here.
Extreme and Eco Friendly in the same…article. 45,760 square feet…no mater how you slice it…something that big just reeks of consumption…they incorporated Renewable energy to off set their Guilt…for such a huge place…also in the same article…another home at $6000 a square foot…again more guilt off set with a “green white wash”.
get real…modest sizes…simple renewable and sustainable practices…are what make something green in my book.
I agree completely, Kevin. Big old bucket of green-wash. It’s the environmental equivalent of storing a Prius in the back of your Hummer for “neighborhood trips”.
The paradigm of gluttony and sweeping unsustainable lifestyles (both economically AND environmentally) under the rug, needs to end, or it will be ended for us.
“Big old bucket of green-wash.”
Didn’t you hear? Green is the new Black!
NBC’s logo is colored in Green but don’t you dare criticize their parent company General Electric for their carbon emissions and massive violations against EPA policies.
Just paint a Chevy Suburban “Green” and it will sell like hot cakes.
What I am continually amazed at is the money that some people have to “go green”. Small home living should be about reducing personal greed-not showing off to your neighbors. We looked for three years until we found our 10×12″ cabin in the mountains. Yes, there were plenty of “log home” weekend mansions in the area, but we wanted the real deal-to be as close to nature as possible. So we don’t have a flush toilet, we don’t have running water and we have to “Pack in Pack out”. The rewards are migrating butterflies that sit on your shoulder, deer that come into the preserve to escape hunters, and air so clean you feel like you are living back in 1800. This kind of hippie chick oplulence makes my stomach turn.
Wow, thanks for this. You seem to be quite the expert in this category. I’ll stop by more often.
If you took all the people in the world divided by the available housing, everyone would get 10 SF, without running water or heat…
I would think with the current Wall Street ‘if you get hungry, eat the rich’ protests, this kind of thinking would be a tad bit Marie Antoinette-ish.
Eco-conspicuous consumerism? No matter how ‘green’ the material or systems used in a structure, building obscenely huge housing is just wrong. And $6000/sf? Are you kidding me?? This is just the one percent playing at being good environmental stewards.