Getting Serious About Energy In Public Buildings
Lets stop counting points and instead focus peoples attention much more clearly with a measurement we all understand very well – dollars.
Green building is dead—its time has passed
Green building is dead—its time has passed. We lie to ourselves when we think we can build in an environmentally sustainable way. We need to acknowledge that every building is an unnatural act. We want a building to be warm when it’s cold outside, cool when it’s warm outside, dry when it’s wet outside, and light when it’s dark outside. Although rot and decay is the essential refueling mechanism in nature, in a building, rot and decay is the surest sign that something has gone seriously wrong. Looked at this way, every building is an environmental mugging.
