From the New Yorker — a straw in the wind.
Greenbuild, which is held every year in a different city, is part trade show, part educational seminar; the program included sessions on straw-bale design, building-integrated wind turbines, and “high-performance renovations.” Jones was ushered into a meeting room where nearly a thousand people—architects, engineers, construction managers, city planners—had gathered to hear him.
Jones started out by speaking about the election—“It’s not that we have a President who’s black; it’s that for the first time we have a President who’s green”—and soon moved on to the idea of a revolving-loan fund to retrofit buildings. READ THE WHOLE THING
The disfunctionality of our society is not any more in the “ghetto” than in the rolling metrosprawl of auto-enslaved society. The answer is in tying green to new planning and the creation in integral human settlements.
