[Greenbuilding] Earth-berming an existing home

[natural building]

Would planting trees / bushes to provide shading offer some relief in the summer?

Regards,
Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2011-08-11, at 2:28 PM, Leslie Moyer wrote:

> Termites, too, I reply to myself....  :-)  It's not the aesthetics I'm after (though that would be okay--most. boring. house. ever.), it's relief from this incessant heat-gain. There are some other things I can do, so I guess I need to do them first.  During the time we were designing a new home (different place from where we live now), we were designing an earth-bermed home and I am so convinced of their benefits in my climate.  I was just longing for that solution, I guess, to this godawful heat (which did finally break yesterday, thankfully).
> 
> Leslie Moyer
> unschooler at lrec.org
> www.ShadyGroveNaturalFarm.com

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