{"id":28208,"date":"2017-11-22T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2017-11-22T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:54:48","slug":"can-a-house-be-a-sustainable-part-of-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28208","title":{"rendered":"Can a House be a Sustainable Part of the Landscape?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nav-bar fixed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"slide-pager\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"site-main has-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"site-content\">\n<article id=\"post-42178\" class=\"post-42178 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-general\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Can-a-House-be-a-Sustainable-Part-of-the-Landscape-feat.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Can-a-House-be-a-Sustainable-Part-of-the-Landscape-feat.jpg 690w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Can-a-House-be-a-Sustainable-Part-of-the-Landscape-feat-300x130.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2017\/11\/22\/can-house-sustainable-part-landscape\/\">CAN A HOUSE BE A SUSTAINABLE PART OF THE LANDSCAPE?<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The modern-day housing industry is notorious for leaving out any and all elements of design. Most home contractors design the houses they build around a minimum square footage (the more, the better) and a price range in the several hundred-thousand-dollar range. These houses are designed behind desks or in offices without ever setting foot on the actual piece of land where the home is to be built.<\/p>\n<p>The actual piece of land where the home is to be built is a side thought at best. If there is some element that presents a disturbance, the bulldozer can be hired for $50 an hour and get rid of any problem whether it be a small hill, a large tree, standing water, etc. In most cases, the first step of any home construction involves bringing in tractors and backhoes to rip out any vegetation and create a level piece of wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>A superficial coat of green grass supported by heavy applications of chemical fertilizer mask the fact that the house that is eventually built is sitting upon an ecological wasteland of infertility.<\/p>\n<p>In permaculture, the process of design asks us to take into account how the different elements we place on a given piece of land can function together and interact in such a way as to contribute to the overall systemic resilience and health of that piece of land. The underlying goal for all <a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2017\/07\/28\/permaculture-ethics-sustainable-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permacultural design<\/a> processes is ecosystemic health and abundance. The underlying goal for the industrial construction industry is higher profit margins.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00b4s consider the example of the direction in which a house is angled when built. For traditional construction, this is a side thought at best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAN A HOUSE BE A SUSTAINABLE PART OF THE LANDSCAPE?\u00a0 The modern-day housing industry is notorious for leaving out any and all elements of design. Most home contractors design the houses they build around a minimum square footage (the more, the better) and a price range in the several hundred-thousand-dollar range. These houses are designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1797,17131,9358,769,15480],"class_list":["post-28208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-house","tag-landscape","tag-permaculture-research-institute","tag-sustainability","tag-tobias-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28209,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions\/28209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}