WC#6 - Building a Green Home (pg. 147) Ryan Thurmer

I feel like when many of us think of what we can do to reduce our emissions, or become more environmentally conscious we don’t think of our home right away. We definitely think about our cars, our light bulbs, even the cleaners we use then we might think about the actual structure that we live in as something that is causing the same problems our cars are. Worldchanging thinks of a home as an appliance, after we use it and we are done with it, we move on. When the kids are out and the house can not be improved any more by remodeling we move on. Creating homes with this in mind with give us a head up on climate change. Using carbon natural homes, prefabricated homes, and modular homes that can be easily built, redesign, and taken down. This forward thinking in design is what makes a product a great design. Especially in design, but even more so in architecture, we have to think about what will happen to this when we are done with it, then our designs will be worldchanging.