[MCN] Wall Street Journal: The Green House of the Future

[Lance Olsen]

Wall Street Journal
APRIL 27, 2009

CONSUMERS
The Green House of the Future
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050414436548553.html

We asked architects to draw up plans for the most 
energy-efficient houses they could imagine. They 
imagined quite a bit.

By ALEX FRANGOS

Excerpts:

What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like?

A fresh look may be long overdue, given the 
amount of damage that homes can do to the 
environment.

But the most important order for Mr. Mouzon is to 
make the house compact. "The smaller thing you 
can create, the more sustainable it is."

In fact, that's something that all four of our 
architects agree on: Americans need to learn to 
live in smaller spaces if we are going to make an 
impact on the environment.
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"Tree mortality in relatively undisturbed 
old-growth forests across the West has risen even 
when not triggered by wildfires or insect 
infestations."
Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2014/09/Rocky-Mountain-Forests-at-Risk-Full-Report.pdf

Excerpt: "Other scientists have made similar 
projections. According to one study, also 
assuming medium-high levels of future emissions, 
conifer forests are projected to shrink by half, 
from 24 percent of the West's land cover in 2005 
to 11 percent by 2100. The Southwest in 
particular is projected to lose nearly all its 
conifer forests. Shrublands and grasslands would 
largely replace the conifer forests, expanding 
from 11 percent to 25 percent of land cover in 
the West. These changes could occur rapidly and 
should begin to become evident around 2030, when 
average western temperatures reach about 1.6°F 
above late-twentieth-century levels--or 0.6°F of 
further warming (Jiang et al. 2013)."



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