House As a System

8 07 2008

One thing I run into time and time again as an energy efficiency adviser is lack of consideration of a house, or any other building, as a system. Buildings are a complex arrangement of systems not totally dissimilar to biological ones. And what one does to one system in a building can positively or negatively impact others.

Let me give you a few examples:

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Life Without Plastic… sort of.

8 07 2008

One of the things I have realized when my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby this winter is how much I am still polluting the earth, even being as earth conscious as I think I am. I still buy lots of plastic and styrofoam products, disposable products, over packaged products, etc… We justify it to ourselves as saying there are no alternatives or at least no convenient alternatives and buy some of our food bulk but that’s about the extent of it.

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greenspree.ca » Blog Archive » Step Five – Stucco (Update)

8 07 2008

img_8397.JPG greenspree.ca » Blog Archive » Step Five – Stucco (Update)

We’ve made some progress on the stucco front!  Check out the details at greenspree.ca.