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14 April 2010
Building green: Catherine Mohr on TED.com
In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think. (Recorded at TED University 2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 6:13)
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Nicholas Hall
May 26 2010Finally, someone who knows what she is talking about. If anyone things she does not know what she is talking about, does not get it. I would marry you if you weren’t already taken Catherine Mohr !
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Jun 23 2011
I agree with Catherine Mohr’s big picture approach–she did, however, miss at least one key element: location. Do we build near our work, school, and daily life needs? Do we build within access to public transport and walk/bike ways? Or, do our green homes have a great deal of embedded energy use due to poor access to our daily lives?
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hey guy
it is really is the glass half full or half empty i have met some really smart thinkers in building homes…..then you have mcmillian realty who builds cities!!!which brings me to my usual warning for all.. please read this if you are not mrs mohr…..http://newsblaze.com/story/20100411123047lawg.nb/topstory.html –god bless heyguy