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<DIV>Very good points with regards to location. Another part of that is
the lifestyle of the occupants. If you are in a rural location, work at
home and produce most your own food, that green field location can indeed be
green. Also, that reduced density reduces the problems of runoff, allows
natural vegetation cooling and allows the diverse natural ecology to manage the
adjacent forest from which we can harvest meat and forage food from.
However, the same location where you are commuting, not so much.
Reciprocally, if you are in an urban location such a Brooklyn, you are in a
setting that has no natural ecology. Therefore, all products need to be
brought to you. Stability must be maintained by human managed systems such
as sewers, utility water, storm drains (very rapid runoff), roads, police,
et. There is also the heat island affect of concrete without
vegetation. These footprints have to enter to equation.</DIV>
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<DIV>I live in the country and work at home in my pretty efficient retrofitted
thermal envelope and grow most of my food. However, my wife is not as
content to stay at home and is volunteers with benevolences in town. I am
the husband, not the dictator. Therefore, fair enough,we loose points on
our location score. </DIV>
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<DIV>Another part of the location score relates to extended family that you
choose to maintain periodic in the flesh reunions with. If they are far
away, the travel footprint is significantly increased. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think the sweet spot is small towns with high density multifamily units
(low ratio of thermal envelope area/occupant) facing green spaces that allow
good day lighting, solar energy production, natural ecology, separation from
vehicles, with home gardens, limited shopping, cultural events, schools and
employment within walking distance with professional farmers just outside of
town managing the ecologically grown food with human waste recycling. Extended
family lives with the region. This has the potential of giving us a
greenhouse gas neutral sustainable niche in the ecology.</DIV>
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<DIV>It would be even better if these settlements evolve from existing
communities that upgrade and replace existing buildings.
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<DIV>Eli </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk
href="mailto:sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk">sanjay jain</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 28, 2014 5:11 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org
href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">Green Building</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Greenbuilding] The Coolest Buildings Aren't
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2820 dir=ltr>Indeed - very good presentation.
Interesting use of the words "Green Bling"</DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2824 dir=ltr>He asks us to ask 3
questions:</DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2831 dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2832 dir=ltr>1) How good is it?<BR>2) Where
is it located?<BR>3) What does it replace?</DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_3023 dir=ltr>I'd add a 4th, the Zero'th
question if you will - how does it make people behave greener?</DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_3289 dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_3290 dir=ltr>For example does a home in a
good walk score actually encourage it's occupants to give up their
cars?<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_3024 dir=ltr>~sanjay<BR></DIV>
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<FONT id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2811 size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn
<info@ecobrooklyn.com><BR><B id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_2813><SPAN
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Green Building <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org> <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:40
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Greenbuilding]
The Coolest Buildings Aren't Green<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1036364603>Very <SPAN></SPAN>Nice. <BR><BR>On Wednesday, November 26,
2014, Bruno M. <<A href="mailto:brunom1@telenet.be" rel=nofollow
target=_blank ymailto="mailto:brunom1@telenet.be">brunom1@telenet.be</A>>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_4244 class=yiv1036364603gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">imo
a must see video for the real greenbuilder, ... &
beyond<BR><BR>greets<BR>Bruno
M.<BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<U></U>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><A
id=yui_3_16_0_1_1417212039390_4245
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUShQ7r_tE" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>The Coolest Buildings Aren’t Green | Bryn Davidson |
TEDxRenfrewCollingwood</A><BR><BR>The Coolest Buildings Aren’t Green | Bryn
Davidson | TEDxRenfrewCollingwood<BR><BR>Published on Nov 26, 2014<BR><BR>This
talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED
Conferences. Creating 'greener' buildings will help address climate change...
right?<BR>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'.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Twitter: @lanefab<BR>Facebook: Lanefab<BR>Email: <A
href="wlmailhtml:{6D4A081E-5B81-49AC-8412-4F14294C3179}mid://00000306/"
rel=nofollow>bryn@lanefab.com</A><BR>Website: <A
href="http://www.lanefab.com/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>www.lanefab.com</A><BR>==============================<U></U>==========================<BR><BR>______________________________<U></U>_________________<BR>Greenbuilding
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<BR>Gennaro Brooks-Church<BR>Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.<BR>Cell: 1 347 244 3016
USA<BR><A href="http://www.ecobrooklyn.com/" rel=nofollow
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