Green Goes Mainstream
The Adobe Posada has been featured in CNN Money:A strawbale/adobe house can take the heat of West Texas summers and the cold out of chill desert nights. Straw not only serves as a great insulating material - the walls have an R-50 rating - but it’s sustainable as well. Excess straw was once burned, which contributed to air pollution. Today it more and more is being used as a green building material, both as bales and in composition board.
The house’s design is “Pueblo Revival,” with handmade adobe floors, kiva fireplace and stone patio. The builder, Clyde Curry, incorporated historic windows from an original schoolhouse, and they afford residents desert and mountain views. Energy efficient, the house costs about $65 a month, winter and summer, to heat or cool. It’s on about a half-acre lot.
Read the full article, Green goes mainstream, at money.cnn.com
Posted by: noble on April 17, 2006 at 19:57:00