Comments on: Oregon home to meet trifecta of green rating systems /news/2012/04/03/oregon-home-to-meet-trifecta-of-green-rating-systems/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Tim Davis /news/2012/04/03/oregon-home-to-meet-trifecta-of-green-rating-systems/#comment-69586 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:30:49 +0000 /news/2012/04/03/oregon-home-to-meet-trifecta-of-green-rating-systems/#comment-69586 Although I love the energy savings and the doors-blown-wide-open academic exercise of achieving and comparing the various ratings and systems, I have one major request:

Please try this with SMALL homes! Any home over 1000 square feet is really not sustainable by any measure on Earth. We need to be building much, much, much smaller homes if our species is to survive for the long term. Let’s not repeat the Easter Island resource-consumption disaster on a planetary scale.

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