Special on super low-energy building. Architect Guido Wimmers on "Passivhaus" (Canada's first); Tom Pittsley on solar mass windows (sun heat in Massachusetts winter); Jamee DeSimone on Net Zero construction. Reducing emissions while saving big on energy costs.
Interviews by Alex Smith http://www.ecoshock.org
Recordings made at sustainablebuildingcentre.com
Bumper music credits: It Takes More Than A Hammer And Nails, Jesse Winchester, Let the Rough Side Drag 1976, 4:33
The House That Dirt Built, The Heavy, The House That Dirt Built, 2009, 18 sec
Building A House, The C.R.S. Players, If Youre Happy And You Know It, 2005, 56 sec
Hammer and Nails, The Staples Singers, Freedom Highway, 1965, 2:25
Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed, 1969, 4:30
If you need time for station ID's, download two 29 minute segments posted below.
Unless you are a farmer or one of the last rugged outdoors adventurers, 90 percent of your time on Earth is spent inside buildings. We are snails who don't know we are snails.
Naturally, we dream of the perfect home. That's a cheap day-dream. The biggest cost, whether you build, buy, or rent - is the energy needed to run all these buildings. Eighty percent of the long-term cost of a building is energy use, not construction. And that is before peak oil and climate pressures really kick in.
For your personal security in troubled times, and for national security, we need to slash the energy used in buildings. Did I mention that numerous studies show buildings contribute more than a third of carbon emissions to our overloaded atmosphere?
I'm Alex Smith. This Radio Ecoshock program is all about solutions. You will hear a prominent pioneer in the "Passivhaus" technique - buildings that use as little as 10 percent of the energy guzzled by our current structures. I'll interview architect Guido Wimmers, and tell you where to download two free passivhaus workshops. You'll get ideas that can revolutionize new building, and help guide renovations to existing ones.
We'll talk to another construction pioneer, Tom Pittsley. He's testing a super-low energy house in Massachusetts, where the windows grab solar power to heat the home, even in New England winters.
Then we'll listen in to another workshop, this time on a Net Zero building project in Ontario Canada. Jamee DeSimone explains how to use planet-friendly materials, including lots of straw, to make long-lasting energy misers. Again, your listeners can download the full workshop, for free, from ecoshock.org (on our "Cities" page)
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