The Green Building concept is the most important selling point today in the Israeli real estate market. In my opinion, it is nonsense. I have many potential clients demanding grey water recycling but I am resisting them. Greywater is dirty water and stinks.
The pic shows a Spanish green project. The concept was to create a green living shade (see model). Reality is a bare skeleton of asymetric, disharmonic giant toothpicks in the air. I wonder how to they imagined to maintain the plants, how they would clean dead leaves, what if the leaves collect dust, what with the dirty pidgeons nesting in front of one's window. Windows are supposed to let in the air, the light, the sun, the sky, the sea, the mountains.
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When I was growing up, we practiced "green" practices not because my parents were environmentalists but because they were cheap. So they would turn off the heat at night (sleep under a feather quilt), etc. So there is some merit to those green practices that make economic sense. But many of them don't - it might take you 100 years to get your money back on some of the idea, or never.
Re: gray water, maybe a little stink is OK? I don't know. Where I live there are tons of water that fall from the sky - the hardest thing is to get rid of it and keep it out of your building. I am amazed that no one seems to have perfected the roof after all these thousands of years. I go to major stores, supermarkets, etc. and after a rainstorm there are buckets all about to catch the drips.
K
No, a little stink is not OK. People is extremely sensitive to bad smells. Ecologically minded fanatics are intolerant of the smallest impurities, natural or not.
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