Posted on 02/27/2007 1:58:35 PM PST by Lecie
President Bush's Crawford TX Home is Model of Environmentally Friendly Living
February 27, 2007
Marc Morano - February 27, 2007
Former Vice President Al Gore has been criticized for his rather large electric bills ($30,000 a year) at his home in Tennessee.
http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
What you might not have heard about is how environmentally friendly President George Bush's home is in Crawford Texas. Below is a partial reprint from the Chicago Tribune from April 29, 2001.
Chicago Tribune
Bush loves ecology --at home
April 29, 2001
By Rob Sullivan. Rob Sullivan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles
The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.
Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this "eco-friendly" dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.
A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.
No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.
This is President George W. Bush's "Texas White House" outside the small town of Crawford
[EPW Note: The President’s House in Crawford was designed to be eco-friendly.]
According to David Heymann, the house's architect and associate dean of the University of Texas architecture department, Heymann designed the house so that "every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that's different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place."
In a USA Today interview, Heymann said, "There's a great grove of oak trees to the west that protects it from the late afternoon sun. Then there is a view out to the north looking at hills, and to the east out over a lake, and the view to the south . . . out to beautiful hills."
[EPW Note: I wonder if the news media will report on the President’s green way of life.]
Nice to know.
see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1791973/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791676/posts
sorry george, you're still not getting an oscar...
We put in a geothermal system when we built new four years ago. Cheap heat and cool from 4 200 foot wells under the driveway.
I wonder if the news media will report on the Sierra Club/NRDC's retreats.
did you see the word "Dupe" in my response?
This is very old news and probably reported in only one news cycle, never to be mentioned again, while Gore, Streisand and other "ecologically-correct" liberals jet around the country, screaming about the fragile environment, while incandescent lights burn in their empty, but fully-climate controlled homes year-round.
That's awesome! That information needs to be disseminated as widely as possible.
"W" Walking the Walk while Al-Gore is talking the talk (and Dunking the Donuts).
We use a similar system in the Mountains of Colorado. Pipes under the floor go through a hot water warmer, keeps the temp at 70 all winter with no blowing air, just warm water.
Sad that even President Bush has fallen for enviro-wacko ism.
Being thrifty and conserving energy is not "enviro-wackoism".
We recently put in a new heating/air system, and if we could have afforded it we would have gone geothermal.
Why throw away money on excess energy usage?
I don't think he has "fallen" for anything. I do think we all need to be a little more careful but President Bush went a little further while Gore continues to BLOAT (in more ways than one.)
So...I guess YOU just burn stacks of dollar bills in your stove....
Thank you for posting this - cuz I can safely bet I won't see it/read about it on CNN.
This exemplifies good "stewardship" and wise use.
I am not surprised.
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