Permanent housing seems great for us: we can eat, sleep and keep our worldly possessions in a convenient place of our own. My question is, to fulfill these requirements do we need permanent housing? Native Americans traveled in tribes and erected homes depending on the seasons, thereby giving the earth opportunities to rejuvenate.
Simplify just the beginning of the building process - the ground is scraped clean and then leveled with machinery. Basically, we have just scraped the earth of its topsoil, re-directed water to our already swollen and usually polluted water systems and now we build a structure that gives the earth no chance to rejuvenate the ecosystem we destroyed.
Green building practices act to minimaze the destruction. Following LEED perameters a homebuilder can minimize damage done to the ecosystem. But any time we erect on bare soil we cannot claim to be building "green." Teepees may just be the greenest option.
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