There’s a lot of buzz around the word “green” these days. Green collar jobs, green cars, green industries, green buildings, green people from Mars, and so on. Obama has been talking a lot about green, and is investing a lot of money into it. But there are some ignored things about this green. Ignored at least in some public circles.
From an article published in Yale Environment 360:
For the new urbanists, building an eco-town is not a matter of building “green” buildings. For some, in fact, green buildings are non-starters, taking 25 to 65 years to recoup the energy used to build them; and once built, they can become quickly obsolete, saddled with already out-of-date technology.
“Everyone gets seduced by the ‘green bling,’” Stephen Platt of Cambridge Architectural Research told me. “Making the houses energy-efficient is the easy bit. The key problem is making this a long-term socially acceptable place where people will want to live and prosper.” More important is creating places that, like Vauban, encourage people to change their unsustainable behaviors and then enable them to do it.
Do you think we’re ready for green living? Do you think the green technologies are ready for us?
photo by: Claire7373
how true, how true…bless you. i am doing lots of blessing. lol i am not a nun. honest. hehe