[Greenbuilding] The Coolest Buildings Aren't Green

[sanjay jain]

Indeed - very good presentation. Interesting use of the words "Green Bling"
 He asks us to ask 3 questions:
1) How good is it?
2) Where is it located?
3) What does it replace?
I'd add a 4th, the Zero'th question if you will - how does it make people behave greener?
For example does a home in a good walk score actually encourage it's occupants to give up their cars?

~sanjay

      From: Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <info at ecobrooklyn.com>
 To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org> 
 Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:40 AM
 Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] The Coolest Buildings Aren't Green
   
Very Nice. 

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Bruno M. <brunom1 at telenet.be> wrote:

imo a must see video for the real greenbuilder, ... & beyond

greets
Bruno M.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Coolest Buildings Aren’t Green | Bryn Davidson | TEDxRenfrewCollingwood

The Coolest Buildings Aren’t Green | Bryn Davidson | TEDxRenfrewCollingwood

Published on Nov 26, 2014

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Creating 'greener' buildings will help address climate change... right?
Green buildings can make a difference, but only if we start asking the right questions. If we can start to see the whole story of how our buildings impact the climate then we can start to make strides toward real 'net-positive' change. The technology isn't new, the strategies aren't rocket science - the hard step is shifting our thinking about what it means to build 'green'.

Bryn Davidson wears many hats. Sure, he’s a LEED-accredited building designer, sustainability consultant and small business owner with degrees in Architecture (UBC) and Mechanical Engineering (UC Berkeley). But he doesn’t stop there. He’s also one of the co-founders of Lanefab Design / Build; a Vancouver-based design and construction company that built the city’s first laneway house in 2010. Since then, Lanefab has continued its specialization in energy efficient green homes and infill ‘laneway houses’ by completing over 40 of the small infill homes. Bryn Davidson has been on the leading edge of the laneway house industry, and we don’t see him slowing down anytime soon.

Twitter: @lanefab
Facebook: Lanefab
Email: bryn at lanefab.com
Website: www.lanefab.com
========================================================

_______________________________________________
Greenbuilding mailing list
to Send a Message to the list, use the email address
Greenbuilding at bioenergylists.org

to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page
http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org



-- 
Gennaro Brooks-Church
Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.
Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231


_______________________________________________
Greenbuilding mailing list
to Send a Message to the list, use the email address
Greenbuilding at bioenergylists.org

to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page
http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org

  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bioenergylists.org/pipermail/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org/attachments/20141128/bcc3877f/attachment.html>