Making Better Buildings: A Comparative Guide to Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors
Introduction: Thinking about sustainable building
There is a remarkable paradox when it comes to introducing new technologies, in con
struction or any other field. We expect new ideas or technologies to live up to unrealistically high
standards, while at the same time we accept as normal many existing ideas or technologies
that are inherently deeply flawed.
It is a commendable tendency to try to be “objective” about new ideas and weigh
as much evidence as we have at hand in deciding whether or not we think they are
worthy. But we tend to be much less than objective about the ideas and technologies
we use on a daily basis. Because they are normal to us, we rarely examine them
in any meaningful way. A certain degree of inevitability is attributed to the ideas we’ve
normalized; we don’t see them as choices in the same way we see new ideas as choices.
ISBN: 0865717060 -- 2014 -- PDF -- 464 pages -- 53 MB
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Introduction: Thinking about sustainable building
There is a remarkable paradox when it comes to introducing new technologies, in con
struction or any other field. We expect new ideas or technologies to live up to unrealistically high
standards, while at the same time we accept as normal many existing ideas or technologies
that are inherently deeply flawed.
It is a commendable tendency to try to be “objective” about new ideas and weigh
as much evidence as we have at hand in deciding whether or not we think they are
worthy. But we tend to be much less than objective about the ideas and technologies
we use on a daily basis. Because they are normal to us, we rarely examine them
in any meaningful way. A certain degree of inevitability is attributed to the ideas we’ve
normalized; we don’t see them as choices in the same way we see new ideas as choices.
ISBN: 0865717060 -- 2014 -- PDF -- 464 pages -- 53 MB
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