Buildings, not cars, are the major damagers of the Earth...

[bigburd]

http://enertia.com/Environment/EnvironmentalArchit...

"Buildings, not cars, are the major damagers of the Earth. Pollution from the heating and cooling of buildings exceeds that from cars, even in America. We just don't see it, except maybe from the chimneys of an older city on a cold Winter day. It happens at the power plant, and where the materials are made.

After agriculture, building is the second largest industry in the world. The manufacture of building materials consumes enormous energy, and exhaustible resources. To its credit, the building industry also uses the most renewables, i.e. lumber. " .....

Saw these buildings on Discovery/Science the other day...

[tonyvid]

I have often thought this, can you imagine how much heat gets put into the system by out activities? Forget the actual gas emissions for a min, just the sheer heat. Even if we had the perfect, pollution free energy source we would still be bunging all our heat into the surroundings.

[groucho]

tonyvid said:

I have often thought this, can you imagine how much heat gets put into the system by out activities? Forget the actual gas emissions for a min, just the sheer heat. Even if we had the perfect, pollution free energy source we would still be bunging all our heat into the surroundings.

You wouldn't think it though.

[Diderot]

Don't worry, the government is already on to this and have a nice little tax scam up their sleeves. Why did they really insist on HIPS I wonder

[Hedders]

Diderot said:

Don't worry, the government is already on to this and have a nice little tax scam up their sleeves. Why did they really insist on HIPS I wonder

"We, the government, have decided that the war on the motorist is over!..Now please step forward if you live or work in a building..."