[Greenbuilding] Totally turned off by high pricesforgreen products

[Mary Bull - Greenwood Earth Alliance]

But there is still the issue of resource extraction, and not just of fossil
fuels and other mining--but of forests and other ecosystems.

Mary Bull, Co-director
Greenwood Earth Alliance, Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick, San Francisco, CA 94117 http://www.gapsucks.org
Chalice Farm and Sustainable Living Center, 748 Montgomery Rd, Sebastopol CA
95472
415-731-7924 - 415-509-1188 chalicenew at earthlink.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norbert Senf" <mheat at mha-net.org>
To: <greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Totally turned off by high pricesforgreen
products


At 06:48 AM 12/17/2006 -0800, Mary Bull - Greenwood Earth Alliance wrote:
>(snip) made a very convincing argument that using steel
>instead of wood was far better for global warming--the carbon sequestering
>properties of living trees far outshines the carbon-release that goes into
>steel production. Does anyone care to comment?

This has been one of the more interesting discussions in green construction.

 From a strictly global warming perspective, the
energy efficiency of the building
usually far outshines the embodied energy considerations. I would argue that
it
is therefore more important.

For residential construction, the 1998 Master's
thesis by Blanchard and Reppe is
a solid reference:
http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/research/lcahome/index.html



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