[Greenbuilding] The Greenest building in your area is? And why? Make up your mind.

[Michael lough]

I suspect that the answer does not lie in some
ultimate formula, but really in the cultivation of human wisdom
and our
capacity to embrace paradoxes and mysteries and overwhelming
suffering
and boundless joy without faltering.



OK.Lets try a different approach.

Perhaps  we can say that the word "building" is as important in the 
description of this list as "Green" ?

If we allow that essentially a building is a physical object then can we 
allow that "building" means a physical activity using actual materials and 
methods that can be described and then can we say that follies aside 
buildings are largely built for a purpose? And if this is the case then can 
we say that Greenness is circumscribed by purpose?

We might ask if an indoor ice rink or a casino can  ever be "Green"?  But if 
"Greenness" is of this physical world then we might have to say that one 
airport terminal that facilitates air travel which of course produces 
atmospheric poisoning might be Greener than another  airport terminal.

Is "Greenness" of the physical world and therefore can be measured in 
building or engineering terms as in LEED or is it a kind of cultural filter 
that allows for certain types of building and not others and based perhaps 
in social engineering superstition  or public relations?

A tack in this divination might be illustrated by the idea of a building 
being built and the builder saying it is the Greenest building ever built  
in his  area or region, if this person said this publicly they might have to 
prove this? But how would they do it?

Perhaps more concrete would be the reaction of those that might seek to 
decry the claim of the builder and thus define a regional  "Greenness" by 
specific reality based argument within the  parameters of real world need 
and this would establish or at least encourage the evolution of a regional 
"Green" fixed mental point (a constantly assailed fixed point of course) 
from which a population can draw from, contest  and employ.

This would I think be the only way a regional Greenness could be nourished, 
it needs a singularity from which to grow otherwise we are condemned to 
eternal anguish the confusion  of culture, climate, politics and the 
machinations of commerce.

Michael Lough