Resilient Design- Page 3 of 3
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Green Building Priority #9 – Create Resilient Houses
Number 9 in my list of the top-10 green building priorities is to create resilient houses that will protect occupants in a changing climate or during extended power outages, loss of heating fuel, or water shortages.
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Making Houses Resilient to Power Outages
The ice storm a week-and-a-half ago illustrated, all too clearly, the vulnerability of our homes. Hundreds of thousands of homes in New England lost power in the storm, which deposited…