Going Home
An Account on Green Building a Home
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If you could live wherever you wanted:
Where would you go?
How would you live?
This sounds like an Oprah Winfrey discussion, but it was a question that we, Pat and Rosie McVay, began exploring a few years ago while living and working in Cape Town. Although we love South Africa and its people, our intention was not to settle there permanently. After encountering people who have a much simpler life but often a more unsustainable, unhealthy and dangerous existence, we wanted to live more sustainably and in harmony with the environment, using less energy and consuming less natural resources. Green building is ‘Going Home’ to a more sustainable future. This blog is a journal and dialogue as we meet this challenge. You are invited to take the trip with us.
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PAT’S Profile
Name: Patrick McVay
Favorite Quote: “We are besieged by simple problems “ Atul Gawande, from The Checklist Manifesto
New Reading: Mountains Beyond Mountains -The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Recent Movie: Carbon nation
ROSIE’S Profile
Name: Rosalie McVay
Favorite Quote: “ I’m on the cusp of the greatest decision I’ll ever make.” Joel Katzman, Sept 2010
New Reading: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
These connections are recommended for anyone who is interested in getting further information on green built homes or suppliers of green materials or components.
Here are books and references that have helped us in this project. If you others that you would recommend on green built homes, please let me know.
OUR Contractors and suppliers
Weiss Building & Development, LLC
Meyer Design
Intelligent Energy Solutions, LLC
Marvin Windows & Doors
Pelican Water Systems
Navien North America, Inc.
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