[Greenbuilding] Nansulate Insulation and our solution to theecological problem

[Gennaro Brooks-Church]

Great comments.
In my ongoing education of what a green builder is these comments make me
think a green building is one that uses  low embodied energy, non toxic,
long lasting materials in a building that although strong is ready to be
easily disassembled or altered as a more important use for it arises.
Any one who has tried removing sheet rock in one piece from a wall knows the
opposite of what I am taking about.
With this green type of building you may not know where culture  or long
term climate is going but the building is flexible enough and full enough
with useful materials that it will be able to roll with future needs.

Gennaro
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 On Jan 25, 2011 12:03 PM, "Johannes Martinez" <johannes.martinez at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I quite agree with this. It is one of the reasons that instead of
> building in the rocky mountains of BC, i decided to look for land in
> Mexico. More specifically in Chiapas because
>
> a) large amounts of ejidos where natives work the land in small
> communities
> b) Communally build buildings and houses (though some houses the groom
> builds by himself when he's ready to take a wife)
> c) already quasi-sustainable (problems with well-rounded diets and
> education/distribution of knowledge
> d) It's the political reason my grandfather was assasinated.
>
> I believe that if we're to make any difference it has to come from the
> bottom up. Once each individual is over-producing, whether it be in
> food or energy, people will have more time for the things that are
> important in life. This movement can't start within the west per say
> because people who are used to not working a day in their life
> (physically that is) won't want to suddenly switch to at least a half
> physical lifestyle. It can't really start in the 3rd world because
> dissemination of information and comprehension of that information is a
> real problem. I remember being in nepal and nobody understood the
> concept of a vacuum as used in their thermoses and solar hot water
> heaters. Consequently they kept trying to use them after the vacuum was
> broken and were puzzled by the fact that they weren't functioning
> anymore and ascribing all sorts of supernatural explanations for it.
>
> Chiapas is sort of in between, it has a network of resources around it,
> but also houses a large population of people thirsty for knowledge of a
> different way of living and willing to do the work to achieve it.
> Almost anywhere in the state is close enough to one of the big cities
> that even the city dwellers will be able to see the benefits.
>
> You also have to remember, most of the houses in mexico are already made
> of mud or stone, or have dirt floors. The average mexican would find
> your average eco-home a luxury. They're already using a lot of natural
> materials it's just a matter of re-arranging them.
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:34 -0500, elitalking wrote:
>> but the more
>> demanding science of seeking to understand the reality of our
>> universe.
>>
>> My comment:
>> I frankly believe that the solutions to our resource dilemma that is
>> threatening our ecology is more likely to come from the third world
>> where people look up to subsistence than from our culture where we
>> look down on subsistence.
>
>
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