The Wall Street Journal asks four firms: William McDonough + Partners, Cook + Fox, Rios Clementi Hale Studios and Mouzon Design to draw up plans for the most energy-efficient houses they could imagine. They imagined quite a bit. Hat-tip to Treehugger
My favorite if only for the vegitecture porn.....
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i have seen the future, and it's not will mcdonough !
I'm wondering how you harvest or cultivate a garden three stories up. the problem with greenwalls/roofs for urban agriculture is that they need more h20 then when your plant in the good ol soil.
I'm also concerned that using potable water for irrigation has a greater footprint then using raw water and shipping produce in from the farm. purifying water is very energy intensive and I've yet to see a comparison...
tk, how is purifying water energy intensive, don't most places just run it through rock and sand filters?
TK,
I am with holz.
In most of these sort of schemes, don't they just use cisterns etc (which capture storm water) or various types of grey water systems, which generally just filter as oppossed to "purifying" water for human consumption?
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