We’re building homes bigger every year. Average home, 1950: 983 square feet. 1970: 1500 square feet. 2005: 2,434 square feet. That’s right–American homes are on average almost three times the size they were about 50 years ago.
One writer thinks that calling any of these behemoths “green” might be a bit of a stretch.
More simply–why are […]

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Here in Portland, we boast of being near the top of countless “Top Ten” lists. SustainLane.org ranks Portland the most “sustainable” of the 50 largest US cities. There’s only one problem with sustainability:
Nobody knows what it is.
Sure, people and organizations will trot out definitions that mimic or expand on the UN’s Brundtland Commission definition of […]

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