Episode 1- What are Green Buildings?
Green buildings are promoted by many practitioners as a way to achieve sustainability; in fact, they are a way to work towards a sustainable condition but a building by itself can never be sustainable. This program will explore the various claims of sustainability, why they are valid and why they are also insufficient. From the beginning of the energy efficiency and solar movement in the 1970’s through today’s popular and transformational LEED Green Building Rating System and the Living Building Challenge, Bill Reed and John Boecker will explore the implications of our scientifically fragmented approach. A scientific reductionist perspective is useful to address the problems that a reductionist science based world-view has caused. To address life as a whole inter-connected and evolving process requires us to work with a pattern-based approach in order to address the complexities of how humans and natural systems interact with each other.
