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02 March 2009

Someone doesn't understand what "Green" means. [More:]It may be dickish and intolerant of me, but I hope everyone involved is crushed to death under the weight of their own carbon footprint(s).
Green really hasn't had a clear definition for many years now.
posted by Ardiril 02 March | 14:39
Oh for fuck's sake.
posted by Specklet 02 March | 14:40
Green really hasn't had a clear definition for many years now.

Fair enough, but I'm pretty fucking sure that a 15,000 square foot house (around 1400 square meters for you metric types) ain't it.
posted by dersins 02 March | 14:43
But there are green trees? The trees are green aren't they? So yeah, it's green then. Check,
posted by richat 02 March | 14:44
That's a nice place.
posted by Hugh Janus 02 March | 14:45
Who knows. It might be housing a family of 30 (one of those where the kids get married and live with the parents, and then have kids of their own, etc). Sounds about right.
posted by qvantamon 02 March | 14:46
The aquarium/bar is pretty rad. Wouldn't want to clean it though.
posted by mullacc 02 March | 14:50
Pretty cool aquariums, though aquariums aren't really green at all, are they? Just pretty fish, lots of electricity and chemicals. And harvesting the living rock and the coral that makes a salt tank look so good is damaging to the environment. Too bad. An aquarium makes for an excellent TV replacement. Maybe more aquariums = fewer TVs, which might even out in the end.

I'd really dig being a guest in that house.
posted by Hugh Janus 02 March | 14:51
Ha, nice call mullacc.
posted by Hugh Janus 02 March | 14:52
But it has a grass driveway so it must be green!

I can't believe the reclaimed wood amounts to 105 acres of forest. And that's just the reclaimed wood, not including the sustainably farmed wood. That house is huge!

Some of the justifications are *hilarious*: "I just had to install that third pool because it might lower my air conditioning costs!"
posted by rmless2 02 March | 15:16
So the hippies have been doing the "ecologically friendly" thing wrong all these years, then? Boy, are they gonna be pissed off.
posted by dg 02 March | 15:40
The house is severely overlit. Like by a factor of 3 overlit.

This, my friends, is a green house.
posted by plinth 02 March | 15:41
Oh and here's another story about that house, complete with some experiential information about how it performs in the cold.
posted by plinth 02 March | 15:43
That's an awesome and laudable way to build and live. I have a friend who does that sort of construction up in Ithaca, NY, and I'm all for it. There's a drawback to the linked house, though: you'd have to live around all those Oberlin people.

Fight, fight! Inner light! Kill, Quakers, kill!
posted by Hugh Janus 02 March | 15:50
The greenest house is a rehab of an existing structure. New LEED construction is nice and everything, but the green involved is more of the currency variety than the ecological variety. We should be doing everything we can to avoid new construction, from an environment-only standpoint.
posted by Miko 02 March | 15:52
you can literally fit ten of my apartment in there. and my apartment is big!
posted by kellydamnit 02 March | 15:55
My house is greener than that one, and it's just a regular house.

'Water gardens suitable for swimming' are pretty awesome, though.
posted by box 02 March | 16:29
Oooooo, house so prettty.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 March | 16:30
You could fit almost fourteen copies of my apartment in there, holy yikes that's huge! We renovated a 100 year old structure with reclaimed stairway parts, previously used floor wood, sinks, tiles, windows, doorposts and even toilets and bathtubs from genbyg which salvages old building parts that can be re-used. That's greener. (we can't do much more on our electricity though, but use less of it and choose only windpower electricity. Had we bought a farm house as we were thinking from the start, solar power would have heated our water and the tile oven would have spread heat to our radiators.)
posted by dabitch 02 March | 16:35
also, what mullacc said about cleaning that aquarium, man, that would suck.
posted by dabitch 02 March | 16:35
If you'd like to just relax and listen to some Muzac in the inviting Ramada Lobby room, we'll be right with you...

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And here's our Long House kitchen, where we make the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and perform the ritual female circumcisions.

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Our Memorial Peter Sellers Party room is a little quiet now, but it's seen some swinging bashes

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the lube's on the coffee table, and the girls will be with you in two shakes of a lambs tail!

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Yo, dawg, we heard you liked beige...

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Fish for your own supper in the Red Lobster room's live seafood tanks! (children's menu entrees beginning at only $4.99)

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Now, even the ultra-rich can enjoy that certain Time-Share sensibility!

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posted by taz 02 March | 17:01
I feel icky now, taz.

In a LOL kind of way.
posted by Miko 02 March | 17:26
The reducing and reusing parts always seem to be the first to go. Harder to monetize, I guess.
posted by box 02 March | 17:29
Taz had me rolling!
posted by redvixen 02 March | 18:07
Maybe the backup generator uses bio-diesel...
posted by buzzman 02 March | 18:42
Pretty house, but that is way too costly for me, and it ain't no green...
posted by hadjiboy 02 March | 20:03
Probably the Green refers to the Moolah you'll have to spend on buying it, and then trying to manage the "Green" thing...
posted by hadjiboy 02 March | 20:06
Oh, we hire a man to manage our "Green" thing.
posted by box 02 March | 21:35
And I feel guilty for buying the supplies to repaint and put new light fixtures in my semi.
posted by Orange Swan 03 March | 11:00
But I'm sure all the water used in the floor, aquariums, pool(s?), and water garden is reclaimed from the sweat of the cleaning staff.

also, what mullacc said about cleaning that aquarium, man, that would suck.

Oh, they have 'people' for that.
posted by elizard 03 March | 12:28
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