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First Aired - 12/16/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House Skip Backus of the Omega Institute joins Jake Alspector & Gennaro Church-Brooks to discuss sustainable architecture and design.
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Burning Down The House Introduction: The Living Building Challange (13:37)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Jack Inslee, Skip Backus, Omega Center for Sustainable Living, www.eomega.org, Gennaro Church-Brooks, Jake Alspector, meditation, yoga, sustainability, LEED, Living Building Challange, John Todd, The Eco Machine, the root system acts as a habitat for microorganisms, environmental classroom, waste water, gray water, sustainable agriculture, irrigation, aquifer,The Omega Center For Sustainable Living (32:15)
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The Omega Center For Sustainable Living, The Eco Machine, low carbon footprint, sustainable design is critiqued because it sometimes avoids design, waste water, solids collections, methane, ground loop heat pump, DEC, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, US Health Department, dismantled warehouse, Kingston, salvage, classroom doors, US GBC, U.S. Green Building Council, budgetary limitations, holistic thinking, year round building, Red Hook, 6 graders, two shed roofs with a flat roof in the middle, butterfly roof, greenhouse, film series, panel discussion, lagoons, sunbreaker, snow, blizzards, fresh drinking water, rain water, energy model, solar trackers, electric motor with a photo cell, three mirrors that follow the suns by the rotation of the motor, they reflect the light down onto the plants, insulated glass, energy footprint,Sustainable Concepts (13:22)
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sustainable buildings can look like a hippies armpit, sustainable design is similar to vegetarian cooking, vegetarian cooking found its own identity over time, reclaimed barn beams, recycled lumber, laminated beams, limited budget, non for profit, Reinbeck, Los Angeles, California, dispersal fields, infiltrators, discharge wells,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/23/2009 08:00PM
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On this episode of Burning Down the House Curtis B. Wayne poses the question: Recycling; bonus or bogus? Guests: interlocutor Katie Keiffer and Michael Cockram, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at Univ. of Oregon.
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Recycled Materials with Michael Cockram (18:31)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Michael Cockram, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon, The Italy Field School in Oira, University of Arkansas, Fay Jones, traditional building materials, sacho sona cavona, Ossola Valley, heavy timbers, laying stone, granite, reused materials, working in the vocabulary of the space, Iron Age, Celtic Tribes, Pre-Etruscans, University of Oregon, conduit, tensile qualities, regraded and stamped, reclaimed cheaper, used, The Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living, mortar, architect, brick, Associazione Canova,Popular Recycled Materials in NYC (19:09)
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Brooklyn, Joe Pepe, M-Fine, Roberta's Restaurant, Hector Ducci, Gennaro Church-Brooks, ecobroker, salvage demolition areas, timber, seal and joist, reprocessing on the premises, furniture, southern pine, furniture grade wood, amber, steel can be softer than old wood, white woods cheaper, tongue and groove, Ecosystem of exclusively Yellow Pine, Yellow Pine Forests of Georgia, green builder, Home Depot, conduit, dumpster diving, salvaged wood, Build It Green NYC in Astoria, cast-iron radiators, Chinese new billet steel,The Green Movement and Green Organizations (11:45)
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sustainable, first to reclaim, the Green Movement Boom, reclaimed cool factor, Generation X and Y, Gotham Forrest, FSC, Forest Stewardship Council, meaningless certification, McMansion, wasteful dumpster, pressure treated wood is toxic, creasoak lumber, Katy Keiffer,Black Locusts and Moving Forward with Organizations (11:04)
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black locust is rot resistant, honey locust, the tree of Brooklyn, farm fence posts, industrial revolution, creasoak wood, hemp plant, pilings, the building materials vernacular, USGBC, United States Green Building Council, Henry Gifford, LEED buildings, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, BioHouse, Passive House, Build It Green NYC, M Fine Lumber, EcoBrooklyn.com, the weed tree,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
