I try to keep up with events to the public that push green build or new
products..very commercial some of them , but this is the business side
of green that has to exist too since not all ' influenced' by
greentech will build a cob house, or recycle a tin can in their life.
But they have to buy lightbulbs, or choose paint, and buy homes. so
there is hope to have some influence on conservation, wasting less,
consuming "better"
http://www.westcoastgreen.com/program/showhouse.php
OK that said the West Coast Green show is in San Francisco in Sept
07 and hosts TV stars : Ed Beagley Living with Ed; Susan Susanka
"Not So Big House" author, lots of eco products, and a prefab type
house made of SIPS with a living roof called the mkLotus, but I see
nothing lotus like about it.
Now take one look at the house illustrations ( poor computer ones)
in the URL and I think you will agree how ugly and hi tech 'locker
room' it looks. there are no round edges, no softness or eco-cool
about it. just techy looking- it looks like "1984 " ( the book & film)
come to life if HOUSING was the issue, not politics/freedom.
Is it me? or do all/any/some of you not like this trend in "green"
building? These "shelters" no matter how efficient & green they ARE
underneath they look MORE like Katrina Evacuee quonset huts than any
home I would like. Look at any COB or alternative design, and you see
something alive, not this hard edged TIN Army shack.
MAYBE these are the ---- sudden realization-- ugh! !! ----- CITY
SLICKER "green" buildings people in high-density areas must have???...
OH !NO! MR. BILL!!! say it isn't so!!?? How can 250 "renowned
speakers" and 12,000 attendees who will come to West Coast Green LOVE
this design, or will they, like me, hate it? or, are we really being
"prepared" to accept this as "good housing" in a future resource
-starved nation?
Besides the current streamlined look, the ultra Chic slim to bare
nothing colors, skinny furniture, will people in the future STILL want
that? will it be a choice? what will all the kitchey home decorating,
fabric, and furniture stores do to fight back?
the designer M Kuffman did a great looking, albeit techy cold design I
like better a year ago- nice shed style roof, more cabin looking, less
icy called the glide house-- see it at the site
Charmaine Taylor Publishing << flouncing off to read more books on
privacy invasion, and watch X-Files reruns....trust no one..... I mean
it!
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