Sentences with phrase «gizmo green»

Alternatively, anyone can build a sort of comfortable house by throwing enough radiant flooring and ground source heat pump air conditioning and other high tech gizmo green at it.

I'm certain they will produce many and better solutions... so long as they're seeing it through the Original Green lens rather than they Gizmo Green lens they're currently looking through.

And while Gizmo Green solutions are hurt by economic downturns, Original Green measures fare much better, because most of them operate naturally.

The Gizmo Green Conundrum pits an icon of Gizmo Green (a Chicago parking deck promoting itself as being green) against the eight foundations of the Original Green.

But if Gizmo Green is our only lens, then the answer it produces is «Yes, a sustainable parking deck... and it's a real champ, too.»

The Original Green is holistic sustainability, and broader than Gizmo Green.

So while Gizmo Green makes some contributions to reducing energy required to construct buildings by calling for materials extracted and regionally, living traditions do the same, and they also prefer materials that have been processed less, embodying less energy.

• Proponents of Gizmo Green profess their concern with energy required to construct buildings.

Problem 4 - The Gizmo Green Focus makes the case that focusing on Gizmo Green solutions is a losing proposition if we hope to achieve real sustainability.

If you're sick of hearing the same green building talk today on Earth Day, it could be because Gizmo Green is the only thing being discussed in most circles.

Scroll back up for a moment and look at the diagram... and notice how small a part of true sustainability Gizmo Green occupies.

People like gizmo green, they like reading about Tesla Roadsters.

As one who always is complaining about gizmo green and touting the benefits of dumb homes and simple tech, it is perhaps odd that I am such a fan of an expensive, complicated construct of pumps, fans, heaters and wireless controls.

Not exact matches

Another component of greens performance, firmness, was monitored by a two - man team with a new gizmo called the Turf Tester.

Gizmo (green) and blocks (red) fall at random, well stacked, Sometimes the water appears, it flow Gizmo.

«Green technology» and carbon trading companies are everywhere here, selling heat pumps, solar, wind, and nuclear power gizmos, and describing the «offsets» they have to offer.

The Centre has all of the expected green gizmos, including enough photovoltaics to supply 30 % of the building's requirements, a wind turbine, ground source heat pumps and «exterior and interior solar control strategies specific to each façade in order to minimize solar heat gain in interior spaces and to offset cooling loads.

You don't need a lot of green gizmos for a passive house.

This is important, and the reason I think it is a better standard than, say, Net Zero, which is green gizmo intensive.

What would happen in North America if someone proposed such a radical roof between such historically important buildings, Most of us preservationists would go insane over green gizmos mucking up the heritage landscape.

The passive house idea is so sensible, where instead of covering your house in green gizmos that generate heat and power, you design the systems so you don't need them.

I became a bit obsessed with the Terry Thomas Building, as perhaps the best example of how you design a new building to work like an old building, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional building.

It's the first net zero energy bank branch in the USA, and one of 17 branches of the bank with LEED certification; this one is going platinum, with all kinds of green gizmos.

From green gadgets and gizmos, to DVDs and loose - leaf teas, I get the occasional product sent to me for a [& hellip

I have concentrated on the passive features of the building, the shape, the landscaping and natural ventilation, but it also has its share of the high - tech green gizmo features too, like these evacuated tube solar water heaters on the roof.

You don't need fancy green gizmos on the roof to counteract our waste of energy; you just have to design it right in the first place so that it doesn't need it.

This hurts the approach to green building that sees it as more than a collection of devices, gizmos and gadgets.

The Times notes that while they are popular in Germany and Scandinavia, they have not caught on in the US, where it seems that the «green gizmo» approach of adding photovoltaics and heat pumps rules over simplicity and efficiency.

Calthorpe endeared himself to me with his discussion about how urbanism is green, countering the green gizmo school:

There is probably a compromise to be found between Steingruber and modern architecture, between filling our buildings with high - tech «green gizmo» solutions and simply building with healthy materials, lots of light and lots of fresh air.

And we are not talking about putting in solar panels or groundsource heat pumps or green gizmos; just a shitload of insulation, careful detailing and controlled amounts of high quality glazing.

All that design, all that money spent on solar panels and green gizmos to make the building almost net zero energy, just so 10,500 cars can fill its parking lots.

Green Gizmos in TreeHugger: Urban Modular Architectural Wind Power Microturbines!

According to Chris Magwood, the cost premium for this house over a conventional one is about $ 80,000, mainly for the green gizmos like the solar panels, the composting toilet system and the triple glazed windows.

This house is not a draughty barn with lots of green gizmos.