Architecture...

Lately one of my favorite green blogs is the GreenGeezer. Since I write a ton of green blogs, it's nice to see a fresh take on the same topics I'm always thinking about. In any case, the blog is not new, just one I missed. GreenGeezer's tagline is, "Green homes for baby boomers: Because there's still time to do it right." Which is very cool considering that everywhere I go people act like green is a youth issue - NO. It's an everyone issue.

Where this is going is one, you should visit GreenGeezer, and two, the other day she had a good post up with a link to Building Green's history of green building time line. I've actually read Green Building often, yet somehow missed the time line.

You'll enjoy it. I don't like that it quit being updated in 2000, because we've made huge green building strides in the last seven or so years, but other than that, it's a nice read.

The time line starts way back in pre-20th century – a time of understandably simple passive designs that had to heat and cool on their own, because big shock, no central air. It skips to the 30s when technology started to take over and then a big bulk of time from the 70s through the 90s is covered. We made huge building mistakes, and some nice green advances during that 70s-90s period.

Now of course green building is coming on in a more forceful and organized way (thankfully). Visit the time line - maybe, if you're the advantageous sort you can continue the time line from where they left off.