Going Green

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Permalink Reply by Springer on August 1, 2011 at 7:20pm

Ha!  That is a superb question!  I like to think so.  And I hope so.  But are "green" buildings and fancy light-bulbs really enough?  Sometimes I wonder if we're getting to the root of the problem, or if we're just patching up surface scratches.

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Permalink Reply by Devin Bertsch on August 3, 2011 at 12:07pm

I think its a start but definitely not the whole problem....if you look at someone like michael pawlyn, who's research is trying to create closed-looped systems, you get architecture that both involves the environment and conserves it.  Not that his approach is the only or best way but I think it allows us to get beyond just the LEED stamp of approval or something similar.  But baby steps I suppose....

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