The Northwest Green Home Primer by Kathleen O'Brien, Kathleen Smith

By Kathleen O'Brien, Kathleen Smith

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Unfortunately, replacing the standard fan wasn’t as easy as it sounds. The space was tight to work in, as the fan was located in the eaves, and the drywall had to be cut in situ to fit the shape of the replacement fan. Thus even small trade-offs can become pretty significant. However, there are three big decisions that will affect all the others, and as such your ability to fulfill your goal of living in a green home. If you’re considering remodeling an existing home, these decisions have already pretty much been made.

Understanding that this problem represents perhaps only the most visible (and certainly the most culturally significant) aspect of human impacts on the bioregion, it’s not an exaggeration to say that green homes, green remodels, and green communities developed on a broad scale can reverse the course of this degradation and preserve what matters to inhabitants of Cascadia. Cascadia is a richly diverse region with many large and small ecosystems providing natural services. An open field in Sisters, Oregon, with mountains in the distance (below) is counterpoint to a bog in Snoqualmie, Washington (far right).

Meanwhile, growing environmental concerns are as prevalent as the pretty views. Waterways suffer from pollution; mountaintops no longer boast snowcaps year-round because of changes in climate patterns; water tables are threatened. A haze of pollution blurs the air and tests the breathing capacity of the most vulnerable members of our society—our children and our elderly. Soil, the nutrient base that feeds our forests and our crops, continues to erode at an alarming rate. The increasing fragility of our environment is hard to ignore, and nearly daily, we read or hear stories on this topic.

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