Green homes are nothing new
I love this article from The New York Times Magazine about 200-year-old houses. An excerpt:
If by “green architecture” we mean buildings designed to exist in harmony with environmental conditions, to conserve fuel and regulate temperature by “natural” means, then it is easy to forget that this did not begin with the invention of solar panels, photovoltaic cells and LEED certification. Americans have been experimenting, adapting and reshaping their architecture to suit their local environment since the very beginning.
Labels: construction, materials
posted by Leslie Madsen-Brooks at
10:41 PM
1 Comments:
seems like common sense to build in concert with the environment doesn't it? In fact it's probably only more recently that we've strayed from it.
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