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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Green building the next trend in Reno?
Sep 27, 2008
By John Barrette from KRNV
Reno and other cities need to promote green building, combat urban sprawl and work to produce a sustainable future for the planet, according to an award-winning former mayor from Utah.
Rocky Anderson was mayor of Salt Lake City for eight years, and the keynote speaker over the weekend at the 2008 Green Summit put on by the City of Reno, at the University of Nevada, Reno. He said global warming threatens every creature on earth and people must stop fueling it, particularly in cities. He branded use of fossil fuel as a primary cause.
"This trend spells catastrophe if we don't reverse it," he told some 300 participants at the Saturday afternoon gathering.
Anderson said if current warming trends continue, polar icecaps will melt, species will become extinct, and people will die from starvation, drought problems, heat waves and other results.
"We are all going to be severely impacted," said Anderson, whose tenure as mayor of Utah's most populous city brought him kudos.
He was honored with the EPA's Climate Protection Award, the Sierra Club's Distinguished Service Award and the World Leadership Forum's World Leadership Award.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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