The only perfect building, environmentally speaking, is no building.
Clarke Snell, author of The Good House Book: A Common-Sense Guide to Alternative Building, seems to agree. Anything we build, Snell writes, has some degree of unavoidable, negative ecological impact, and so:
“For me, alternative building isn’t about fads, right way versus wrong way, how things ought […]

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Michael Pollan makes the case that when it comes to climate change, individual choices do matter. But the reasons why might surprise you.
In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Pollan asks a critical question: does it matter if he changes his life to address climate change by going “green”, given the humble scale of one person’s […]

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