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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.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Build it Green or Build it Wrong

Apr 4 2008 3:44PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (4) |
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Yep, I said it. Green is right. If you don’t build green, you are doing at least some of your work wrong. Not all of it, but certainly some of it. If you are building everything the right way, then you are probably building green, or very close. I am totally over the nay-sayers who don’t believe that you can seal a crawlspace or build a house very tight. They need to get in line or go sell used cars.

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at 4/10/2008 12:04:36 PM, Green Queen said:
Anybody who built energy hogs could easily transition into Hummer sales! ; - )

at 4/15/2008 11:19:45 AM, Terry R. Dalsky said:
Hello, it seems that some of the people who espouse "green" are some who have never built any thing in their life. Untill ther is a real definition of "green" that can be agreed upon, what exactly is green, just good building practice, keeping up with new methods and techs, building out of straw bales, or old tires in the middle of the desert,using an outdoor burner that smokes up the neighbors air???????????

at 4/25/2008 9:03:54 AM, Carl Seville said:
Terry - Thanks for contributing. I agree with you - now that green is uber-cool, everyone is trying to jump on the bandwagon. You can't get away from green in the media right now. Everyone wants a part of it. Luckily, there are some pretty good standards for green building availble right now. They do vary in terms of how stringent they are, and some programs are more comprehensive than others, but the important thing is that they are all beginning to head us in the right direction. USGBC, NAHB,and over 100 local groups run green building programs that help builders and remodelers learn how to do it right. It is somewhat of a moving target right now, but we have the public's attention and need to take advantage of the opportunity.

at 4/28/2008 5:28:20 PM, student said:
green seems to be very popular at the moment because the media can make money off it even though it is good to go green people have to be careful about what green products they buy

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