{"id":141,"date":"2008-04-28T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/tugging-on-the-green-center.html"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:56:10","slug":"tugging-on-the-green-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/tugging-on-the-green-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Tugging on the Green Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Kevin Doell<\/h4>\n

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Catching up on my podcasts this morning, I pulled down the PRI Studio 360<\/a> show \u201cCreative Minds Go Green.<\/a>\u201d It was a great program full of crazy stuff to make one think about the many shades of green.<\/p>\n

This show had it all: solar powered street vendor carts, \u201cEco Art\u201d featuring deformed frogs and songs generated from hurricane data, the solar powered subway terminal at Coney Island that generates 250,000 kilowatt hours per year (40 houses worth) and of note, \u201cSuperadobe<\/a>\u201d homes originally prototyped for a NASA lunar colony that maximize space, light and interior ventilation.<\/p>\n

In the adobe segment, they mentioned that the houses were so strong that when one of them was being tested in an earthquake simulator, the house didn\u2019t budge, but the simulator started to bend. It\u2019s all connected to the \u201cpower of arches\u201d bit. (Remember the trick where you can\u2019t crush an egg by squeezing it from top to bottom, but it can collapse quite messily when squeezed on its sides? That\u2019s the one.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The program reminded me of a lesson a teacher put into my head years ago when he said, \u201cThe extremes define the center.\u201d I believe this is what is happening more than usual with this latest incarnation of the green movement. The adobe house is a good example. When they first tried to have them built for residential use in California, the local building department couldn\u2019t even approve it because it had no idea how to rate its performance. They did their homework, got up to speed, and now approve that construction methodology in that county.<\/p>\n

Of course, you won\u2019t see these Skywalker homes on display at Lowe\u2019s this summer, but it\u2019s this kind of fringe stuff that pulls the center over a notch or two. My friend, Tom Hocker, a facilities expert, reminds me that this at least the fourth time he\u2019s been through a greening campaign in his many years in corporate life. While each iteration of the movement has had its positive effects, I\u2019m just hoping that this green pull moves us all a little farther than those that came before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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