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Is George Bush a Closet Green?
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| 02.19.07
| Lloyd Alter
Posted on 02/27/2007 9:15:22 PM PST by grundle
Only your dispassionate Canadian correspondent could write this without colour or favour, but is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling.
“By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.”
Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream- colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:15:23 PM PST
by
grundle
To: grundle
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:17:52 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: grundle
If I had the money to do that too, I would.
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:18:39 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: kinoxi
Nobody knows I'm a lesbian...
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:19:02 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: grundle
I would call it common sense. I know a lot of Conservatives who think the same way including me. It is called independance and not relying on others and for emergency situations.
To: kinoxi
Do you wear diapers?
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:19:56 PM PST
by
miliantnutcase
("If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -ichabod1)
To: kinoxi
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:20:10 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: grundle
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:20:53 PM PST
by
billybudd
To: grundle
Bush practices what Gore merely preaches. And he doesn't advertise it.
10
posted on
02/27/2007 9:21:12 PM PST
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("Pray for America. She needs it." - Ted Nugent)
To: Doctor Raoul
Nobody knows I'm a lesbian... Don't be so sure of that...
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:21:27 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(PISSANT for President '08, NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: Parley Baer
Darn straight. Common sense, saves money and energy, and any conservative should appreciate that.
12
posted on
02/27/2007 9:23:02 PM PST
by
Shion
(Hunter 2008! www.gohunter08.com)
To: grundle
I am really proud of the President for this.
I simply hate the idea of waste so I recycle, get free stuff from lots of sources, compost, grow my own food, etc.
If it helps the environment that is okay with me but it is not my goal.
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:24:33 PM PST
by
msnimje
(Brian Camenker - The Right's own version of marKOS Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos)
To: grundle; snugs; Miss Marple; LUV W; ohioWfan; All
OH Grundle honey daily dosers totally busted Al Gore have article on daily dose about Dubya green ranchhouse Al Gore talk the talk
Dubya walk the walk
To me AL Gore is Mill Valleni of Enviorment movement LOL!
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:25:15 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: grundle
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:25:18 PM PST
by
Chena
To: Parley Baer
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:26:24 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(PISSANT for President '08, NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: grundle
And I'm from a star system in the Belt of Orion.
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:26:42 PM PST
by
Maeve
(The Church is not a mythical association of individuals opining on Truth.)
To: grundle
Treehugger.com
Bawhahahahahah
snif, snif
HAhahahaahahahhaahahahahahah
stop me pleae......(snirk) and the little Cube Homes....
Bawahahahahahahahaha
() 'scuse me I gotta go now (snirk)
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:27:39 PM PST
by
ASOC
To: grundle
I drive a hybrid (Honda Insight) and I'm no Al Gore supporter. Efficiency and elegance of design is important to some people.
I think a lot of people with the giant houses are just very insecure. The extravagant houses are a way of amplifying their feeble personas and grabbing at social standing.
To: grundle; Uncledave
Then TX Governor Bush signed one of the first, most lauded, and most successful Renewable Portfolio Standards in the country; long before AlGore discovered (invented?) Global Warming! Texas is now the lead producer of wind energy in the US, met the RPS goals early, and continues to exceed them.Why he never touts this I'll never know.
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posted on
02/27/2007 9:31:49 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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