Sustainable or Barging Rights?
 |
| Waste House |
With the green trend exploding in the last few years. we are starting to see people thinking about sustainability when building homes. The real question is though if they are trying to look green "green washing" for barging rights or are they really focused on making a green home? I took a look at an article about the top 10 sustainable houses to find out.
 |
| ZEB Pilot House |
What I found was a combination of both. In some causes the houses they
talked about where piratical, small homes that fulfilled a need of
shelter. Such as the Waste House which was constructed from 90% recycled
material. Everything from toothbrushes, DVD cases, floppy disks, to
used carpet was utilized to make this interesting home.
While at the other end of the spectrum we have homes such as the ZEB Pilot house. This house while featuring a very impressive solar power system, simply isn't sustainable. The materials alone needed to make the home probably had a huge impact on the environment. Not to mention how un-sustainable heating the massive pool is.
Overall there where more sustainable homes then houses i would qualify as green wash and many of them took some very difficult problems and solved them in a unique way.
For more information on these houses look here:
http://www.gizmag.com/gizmag-top-10-sustainable-innovative-green-houses/34712/
No comments:
Post a Comment