Please take a look at this video that just was put out by the Wall Street Journal a few days ago. The bottom line is that smaller homes are back in style coupled with green communities. Here are a few excerpts from the video, enjoy….
“Mr. Moon says he and his wife dumped a much larger home in Boston three years ago to seek a simpler, greener life here.”
“In the past decade, the two men have built about four dozen Craftsman-style cottages that range in size from 800- to 1,500-square-feet. The houses are squeezed into five boutique-sized tracts, all within a two-hour drive of Seattle. Some were melded into more spacious suburbs under zoning laws modified to ease density restrictions for small houses. Most were built around a grass commons shared by a dozen or so like-minded residents who boast of their tract’s smallish carbon footprint.”
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September 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Cottages should be solar heating oriented and glazed, Solar Roofs should collect LED powered interior lighting in off-line format i,e,. permanent, built in, free lighting. Geo-thermal heating scheme for all cottages in a group should reduce heating costs to near zero. The ideal goal is a zero maintenance, zero running cost family home. Current technologies, if not current sensibilities can make this possible! We need food gardens to provide veggies when possible, and to prevent starvation in times of hardship and Depression! Each one of us deserves a place and the means to stand and fight back against the very unfair situation looming over our very security! That place to take a stand should be our biggest investment, our home. We Americans as individuals can no longer count on our government to help us first. We have seen, by vivid example, who gets bailouts and it is not us! Security may be found in the types and purposes for which we design our homes - need for change is apparent, change in home requirements is now obvious!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Uncle B,
What a fantastic summary. We can no longer count on the government to help, however they are slowly turning a corner with grants for green communities, however they have so much more they could be doing!
Great comment Uncle B, thanks!