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Lincoln's Cottage, Green Lessons
We used to know how to live well with less energy. Take Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home, where the president retreated from the heat of Washington DC—literally and figuratively—for three summers of the Civil War, and where he wrote the second draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. From June to November, 1862 through 1864, this cottage kept Lincoln cool.
How? First off, reports Saqib Rahim for Earth News, prior to air-conditioning, people actually thought about where they built their homes to capitalize on natural features like breezes. That meant taking into consideration trees, hillsides, sun, and shade.
The Cottage at the Soldiers' Home has been recently renovated as a National Trust historic landmark and the decision was made to maintain its 19-century cooling technologies. These read like a list of once-common sense that suddenly evaporated with the advent of air conditioning. The builders relied on smarts not watts. Some of their techniques included:
- Orienting the building so a powerful crossbreeze blows when the front door and rear windows are opened
- Installing tall windows with two sections, a top half to expel warm air and a bottom half to introduce it
- Attaching shutters to block the sun or let light in when necessary
- Decorating with lace curtains to minimize bugs not breezes
These are smart passive technologies we should consider as requirements in modern building design. Let's start with shutters—no, not those useless anachronisms flanking modern windows that do nothing except need paint. Real shutters, the kind that open and close, are a great way to moderate sunlight and reduce heat. Let's pair them with hinges again.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which restored Lincoln's neglected cottage and opened it to the public last year, is seeking a LEED label (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the US Green Building Council. They believe old innovations deserve recognition too. >
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Dear GOP, You are Not the Party of Lincoln
Excellent work from Eric Foner of the Nation (via Alternet) in which Foner smacks down the GOP's recent use of...
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Air Conditioning Heats Your World
Our cool addiction is making it hotter. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports on a study by Dr Yukitaka Ohashi of Okayama University of Science and colleagues in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology reporting that air conditioners make it hotter outside and how they do it. Their study compared the summer temperatures in downtown Tokyo on weekends versus weekdays. It showed air conditioners...
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The Brick Master of Kerala
Laurie Baker is fighting India's rush to resemble the West by making beautiful buildings out of sustainable materials -- recycled bottles, clamshells, and mud.
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Passive Houses
PASSIVE HOUSES....I've wondered vaguely for a while why you couldn't build a house that was basically vacuum sealed and thus needed almost nothing in the way of heating and cooling. But it turns out you can, and ground zero for...
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The Seven Myths of Energy Independence
Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
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Cooling the Planet for Free
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