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This book has some relevancies that many people would rather overlook in the rush to green practices. Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Retrofits and LEED management is not easy when working with large commercial buildings and midecentury and older homes.
A lot of the green energy innovations in the sustainability pantheon of home utility and design architecture have yet to be implemented. This is because the difficulty in installing these technologies and features in the home requires a home owner be able to get their contractor to put the equipment into a home. Schendler explores the contractors “redneck” culture that prevents this.
The author of this book has some relevancies that many people would rather overlook in the rush to green practices. Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution speaks to those with the decision making power to substitute crystal pitchers of water for thousand sof plastic bottles freighted in water.
Retrofits and LEED management is not easy when working with large commercial buildings and midecentury and older homes. the redneck contractor’s Bible includes ignoring the “fruit salad’ of certification while getting the job done. This book hits on the very fact that conventional construction ethics do not include LEED envelopes and green energy sustainability merit badges.
Auden Schendler has first hand experience trying to implement gree startegy in a competitive business environment. The observances are uneasily apt. The energy construction providers are not ready or willing to provide the level of interactivity and responsive consumers are used to. Why change when cost always speaks before sustainability?
But the push for brand dominance based on green energy is a marketing direction companies want to use to build commerce. Hard truth: Profit centric corporate models don’t turn on ecological axes, they merely pretend to in order to garner business. This book has a lot of very readable on-message communication about realities of green construction and environmentally sound business practice.
Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution reveals that for every home builder or home owner that wishes to implement home efficiency, the complementary effort from available local labor or the talent pool of construction engineers may not be so willing.
But green usability problems of transit systems for 5-star hotel owners points up how non user friendly local transit can be. This is widespread problem that newcomes and new converts get roadblocked by.
The challenges to this are in communication and finding a local green contractor who has experience to perform these tasks. This book puts its finger right on the problem of home owners trying to implement change in their home energy system before the building community is ready willing or able to cooperate with the demand.
There is a great example of an example of the types of responses people usually get from inquiries from people they are trying to work with. The evasion and “negotiation” that contractors haggle away reflects why every home isn’t equipped with more energy efficiencies.
Getting the contractor to guarantee 50% or better energy containment is seen as too demanding in some construction labor markets. While this may seem a good opportunity for a green functioning sustainability firm, the establishment and cost of such firms may not have caught up to demand.
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