<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Here here, Anne!<br><br>I wish they'd get around to posting the research results! But I have spoken with Lorri Sipes of<strong><strong><span class="org summary"> Wood Window Repair Company to at least hear the numbers.<br style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></strong></strong><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=448">http://www.environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=448</a></span><br><br><br><div> </div><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> /
\ John E. Beeson, AIA, </span><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">NCARB, </span><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">LEED AP BD+C</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> || * * || 512 Hiscock St.</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> ||| + ||| Ann Arbor, MI 48103</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> || \__*__/ || 734.994.3506</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> || || e-mails:emailme0617@yahoo.com</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> ||| Scream ||| betterEnvironment@yahoo.com</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> powerofsun.johnbeeson@gmail.com</span><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">"There's a fine line between standing on the shore fishing </span><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">and looking like an idiot" - Dave Barry<br><br></span></font><font style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;" id="text" size="1">"But if we are designing new buildings in new ways, why shouldn’t we preserve old buildings in new ways as well?" <span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">- Blair Kamin</span><br><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">"T<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">he road to energy independence, economic recovery and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions runs through the Building Sector." -</span></font></span><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.4; font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"> Edward Mazria</span></font></font><font size="1"><br><br style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"></font><font style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;" size="1">"Sustainability is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are doing it. Those that are doing it are doing it badly." -Aussie
architect Andrew Maynard</font><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: Courier New,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>Well, I know a bunch of people (on the oldhouseweb forum, so they do have a point of view!) who would tell you the greenest thing you can do is restore your old window, install good weatherstripping on them, and add really good-quality storms. I believe your house was 1920s? So the wood is old-growth and with care will last for another century or two, and the weatherstripping and storm additions will make it (I've read) nearly as tight as a modern window unit - with the advantage of continuing to be repairable. <br><br>I know others here prefer modern technology, but the sight of a bunch of windows (and old doors, and plaster and lath) in a dumpster, and new material coming in, really
bothers me. For me it's the history as well as the waste - I'm more traditional Yankee than modern green.<br><br>Disappearing back to lurkdom now . . .<br><br>Anne<br>*******************************************<br></div></div>
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