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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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died yesterday. Solzhenitsyn became lost to popular memory some time ago, I think. But he was once quite famous, specifically for writing about his experiences as a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag. He was a dissident, eloquent and empathetic in his writing, winning the Nobel Prize in 1970. He escaped the USSR in […]

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