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Carl Seville - The Green Building Curmudgeon

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The good, bad, and the ugly about green building and remodeling.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Green by Design, Not by Device

Apr 9 2008 7:06AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |
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Green by Design, not by Device — is another great phrase that I can't take credit for. A good friend of mine and a great green architect from Austin, TX, Peter Pfeiffer came up with that one. It is a kindler, gentler, way of saying no "lipstick on a pig".  It also succinctly describes how we must build green. From the start — designing right from the start solves a multitude of problems. If you start with a bad design it will be costly and challenging to make it green.

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at 4/28/2008 1:45:56 PM, James M said:
Carl, Peter Pfieffer also likes to refer to the "vitamin enhanced cigarette" for those devices, proceedures and design concepts that focus on "green" or "efficient" coponents, but ignore building science or simple conservation practices which could accomplish more all on their own.

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