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Green Renovation and Construction

2010-12-07 | 🔗

Demolition and construction creates a lot of waste, so renovating your house is generally a "greener" option. In this episode, Josh and Chuck explore some green renovation and construction options.

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Hey man, you and me are excited to announce that we are releasing our own upon TAT series. One fanned interview the band in partnership with, I hardly make sure to follow on each week as we choose one fan, come hang back stage and ask us questions check out. One fan to interview the ban on the our heart, radio, an apple pie CAS or wherever you get. Your party is brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camry. It's ready for you Welcome to the park cast Josh Clerk with me, as always, is Charles of each up right. Just like we today, I didn't even get legal food stay right there, yeah, we're unwittingly, plaid collared sure, with a sweater over it and judged him up like food surpluses. You still my look when you are
play you wear it well Chuck's! Well, if you came in with a t shirt with a hole in it and a half beard and a baseball cap, You read yell at me, platelet flaps, I would say the same thing you get out the current and again winter, the caning. What's your set up here? What ok you're ready for me this is all business, isn't it do it chuck you're D, J B, Mckinnon now you ve heard of the hundred mile food movement. Yes said Jimmy Mckinnon and I think his girlfriend were the people who originated this wrote a book plenty. That's the idea that you try to not eat anything, that's more than a hundred miles from here, Am I right in that can lend itself to seasonal, leading local war yeah sure he said, apparently, good luck, finding a beer that was produced within a hundred miles, like grown produced at all within a hundred miles right there s a look of basis of the
the war movement, or at least the mouthpiece of the ship. So he's become candidates, boy, wonder in and viral mental ism as a whole, since that book was released, people look to him for advice and he put on his classes and includes the throat and gives a terms and on both Mckinnon. Had this pretty awesome. Article on that was republished in the October September October, at any reader anyways about basically not getting paralyzed. By having so many problems presented to you,
like we do right any sites, the sociologist paralyze into not taking action. Yeah like it likes his lantern, do or indeed taking too much action, which is equally problematic right there. There is a famous sociologist named Stanley Cohen, an coin Jamie Mckinnon site. This is me for I M just a fan: Mckinnon Sites, Cohen's book states of denial and basically in it Cohen's like heap, he talked about how we delude ourselves into inaction right, largely because it's just too much or you know we're trying to do too much, and he says you know, there's only so much we can do threat and we can't waste our energy on every single problem that we face. So I'm a Kinnock's Mckinnon suggests is called,
vertical agitation. Were you pick one topic in you? Give it everything you ve got. If you want to save the dolphins, you save those dolphins, you know if you want to make sure everyone
Person in America follows through on this compact fluorescent. Both thing right. That's your thing to make that your movement, if you are interested in reducing the M waste stream, that's your thing, and this is your podcast thank straight. This is your protest. I think I'd like the out take better nope, ok, always pushing ahead suckers chalk, specifically we're gonna start out with a problem that well, let's talk about this one of the biggest sectors of municipal waste that waste stream huge right. One of the big way, one of the big areas of thought today is figuring out how to reduce the waste stream and there's all sorts of ideal
this party company, I carer what it's called, but its headed by this great idealist, visionary right at the least carpeting use. You never owned the carpeting in your house. You lease it, which is you paying same price or whatever, but you when you have it taken out. You can't take. It gives us that yours that company takes us back in they recycle it interesting. It is so being diverted from the waste remain so well, one of the biggest one of the biggest sectors of municipal waste that accounts for. I think your account for forty percent of all the waste generated and taken to the dumps in the United States is called construction and demolition waste. Yes, one big way of converting or diverting I'm sorry waste from this waste stream away from the municipal dump him back into reuse is demolition
over a recent every remodeling, I'm sorry over full demolition right. Yeah if you renovating your how your old home, yes, turn it down starting over the top It is with with being green, I'm making airports it's gonna, I'm gonna do that. Every time I see that word. Ok, ok, it's been so cooperated but being green is, is a matter of details in context right right, so like recycling, recycling, good right, just just putting your bottles and cans or by the curve. That's just a good ideas in a measure not in every case buddy like what Well, when you be better off, simply reusing a bottle yeah, rather than throwing it out and in having it picked up, my word is actually garbage package is taking. It replace. While yet I mean that's an we mention this before I can remember which, when it was an, but we need to point out again, that's why that reduce Rees recycled in an order for reason reduces the best thing you can do, don't even used
bottle, use your little aluminum bottle to get your water fill it up with your little filtered water Armand. She sat right reuse if you happen to have a bottle, and we do a lot of this dispute. The thing up sure and then let every last pcbs dramatically saving and then at the very last resort you can recycle and for not doing any of those three things in Europe to jerk pretty much I say the recycle, your right there I mean you gotta, have those big trucks, its measurement him again and deliver it to places not lance and now there's a lot of the lot of greenhouse gases emitted when you do that is a lot of waste is one of your spent. Well, yes, any recycling process. The saved by recycling generally is good, yet the same thing can be said for renovating regret of aiding is generally better, then demolition, but
it is on a case by case basis, and it has to do with how you do it. There's actually, like you know, a greener waiting to renovate, but if you're looking at a house, an old house and you say I mean they're gonna tell us down, I'm in a totally remodel it, but I wanna go green, which should I do rule of thumb generally is to renovate simply because it produces lest less waste. Yes right and plus all the materials it takes to build something from the ground up is obviously going to be more. Even if you took the house down to the foundation and the studs right, you showed me saving on the foundation stones as far as buying new in manufacturing and materials
you gotta, stop your Josh, not a hundred and thirty six million tonnes of waste every year. This, which is about forty percent of what's filling up our city dumps, is construction demolition waste. Now I haven't really surprising for you. I have I've got a little surprise check how good that was two thousand seven man. What's it now in two thousand ten, if a hundred and forty two million
regenerated, which they were all constructing demolition of, switching on, which includes highway construction and repair job, which accounts for a lot of it right. I guess how much is estimated to be recycled this year to be recycled. Fifty percent out of a hundred forty two million tonnes, a hundred and twenty really recycle the faintest so that a lot of this is its being diverted away from right. So there's accessory people are lines, are learning how to do this, and that's a big part of it is, is now just not demolishing your house rent, but even if you do demolished recycling the parts that are demolished. Reusing parts like you mention the Seattle Bay Store, restore the governess here in Atlanta to do they yet great May is a restore store like the artificially restored. I think it's called a restore fiscal and
a million I renovating the house of the hair he slowly. Yes, sir, you still do when I first met you you're, like I run, evade every weekend there, that's not a real again now it's very slow was so I think you do We did some yards stuff yard stuff, like fences and stairs, and things like that. You still scorning it's slow yet were swatting so far but restores awesome, because, instead of going to like your big box retailer to buy your new door gotta when he's restore places and now have like sixty doors that have been taken from houses and in shape- and maybe even cooler and more you know a period looking then than the ones you can get the Big Box place so and they had now that it is not they have I,
windows and window frames they have. Would they have all kinds of things have been removed from houses for resale right to that's a very good way to go if you're, restoring your home is in restoring any outfit like this, they tend to be nonprofits right. They get their their supplies by people bringing a man and selling them to him, and then they market up. Yet or else they don't need it and sell it right. Yes, it's donated to restore or at least in Seattle, restore wisely undertake demolition projects. Yet so they charge you polish. Your house, but they do it by hand yeah they keep nails like down to the nails. Now everything is recycled. Everything that could possibly be recycled is recycled when it cool things is since their non profit and since they're taking the stuff that can be salvaged to resell understood,
you get a tax deduction, so it may be slightly more than like what, with the guy, with the bulldozers going to charge you right, but ultimately, with the tax deduction it may, I may come out to be less and you get a good conscience thing can become a common Europe. Yeah. Well, you mention the project's adieu, my hand, the EPA rated four of these from restore and they rated between seventy and ninety seven percent reuse ratings right, that's amazing, ninety seven percent reuse and one of the other big benefits of demolishing your house by hand. I mean it's slow way way slower sure, but you know the treason, your yard have routes and a bulldozer with tracks. Even a bobcat can conceivably do it, depending on how shallow the roots, the mayor running over it can kill your tree. That's not good that allow worse than running over your foot, any annual I've heard of nightmares from friends of mine with you. No accident happened when you get those big machines in their like goops. I acts
we dug into year sewer line our group's I accidentally, cracked, her gas line and meetings must be well marked, but he got a hundred your house, you never know what's going on in the ground Albino Silva and then once that happens, it's not only more money, but it's not for, what's going on in your environment, local environment, it seems like it should be easy, but is not just getting out of bed and getting your day started. Trying to accomplish everything you need to do in your day that to do list as a lot easier when you're getting news stories, music, to lift your mood in preparing for the day ahead, connected to the things that make you laugh and make you think or make you want to reach out and share with a friend every morning with us. It's Elvis Joanne in the morning show listen to us on cue, one or two or anywhere in the world, on the iron radio app few our demands in your house
and you are not paying say, research do so you do it yourself. You got some time feel a beaten. The tar Addison drywall with a sledgehammer demos gonna, find there is out there. You can put your stuff on Craigslist in addition to not having to pay the dump it. People will actually, at the very least, come take it away for free you right, so you can say have got him. Great door, here's a picture of it who wants it didn't get, who haven T getting rid of anything on Craigslist incident reception like troll it. Any day, and you will see I've got a pile of bricks. I got a pile of this and people come and get. It is indeed vital. Bricks, bricks ink that's right and you might even be able to charge him if you're savvy demolishing for taking on your stuff. Yes There is also I wish any the name in the company, but I saw one of the home Renault shows a few years ago. A home Renault show the really like a abbreviate
the name basis. Home renovation, television programme became a little this He will come out and take all of Europe let's say you are demolishing it: they will take your demolition waste onsite! Put it into this machine that pulverize! Is it into little bits of nothingness and supper? the nails. At the same time, like you see it shaking, the nails were coming out the side and then what they do then is they ve got like half of your house and little pebble sized. Chunks and then the way it under your driveway and then pay on top of that sweet, so right there at all on site, reuse- and it's probably not the cheapest thing in the world, but you get to have a clear conscience that you didn't go to the city dump and put your house on it. Essentially,
This is what you know, and we should probably also say that if you are going to save a few bucks, probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of ten grand and demolish your house yourself, you should watch videos on talk to. Some people have done it before. It can actually be kind of dangerous jellia, your deconstructing, your house, and it could fall on top of yes. Demolition is very dangerous and you know what you're doing it had right gear. Don't be a dummy dummy. Your tackle a bit more about green building. Yet so, let's say you ve got your house and you're in the market to maybe makes him greener improvement train wreck. So let's talk green building. Do while there.
Green materials, and you may not know this, but pretty much any material that you need to build your house. You can find a recycled version that if you look gardener yeah, so that's where you should start well, you're looking at others, two different ways that something can be recycled: post, industrial yet so like come fly. Ash in your concrete and could be recycled could be captured from you know, an industrial as industrial waste there and that's actually think clashes is particularly bad. Did you bury? I really can t use it up from one percent or it can be posed consumer meaning, like somebody took their toilet paper, all put it in the recycling stream and now it's part of your would floor right because it does happen. Sometimes a lemon affords you can get, is recycled. Things pressed together with the wood veneer on top
easy to install cheap, cheap, yes, and if you have a playground, have you been in the Piedmont part playground now? That is, they have one of those, Sir rubber force. It is so much fun to walk on Josh another thing to as you can now they have. This would now current. What would the Chinese were? Decking? That's not would it's actually recycled bottles yeah, but it looks like what pet bottles, not glass, bottles, yeah, a clatter, not speaking of coding quote, would enable flooring is huge. Oh yeah, it's actually grass Tom resolve, bamboo reset. It goes back and five or six years right oak takes a hundred twenty years. I think too timid dreadfully again. You know, you know what that's how then the sustainable products really that's a sustainable needs,
I have not heard the phrase before you can recycle steel. He can melted down. Reformat reshape at the world. Trade center was largely recycled done. If you knew that I didn't, and in fact there was a big brouhaha afterward, because a lot of the families of victims from the twin towers falling said, that's evidence should study it and then Bloomberg. Who was an engineer and other ingenious Edina its should be recycled. There's not a lot. You can learn about the structural integrity of the building from actually looking at the clap steal. You need to look at my computer programs that show it was built. So we appreciate saying that, but we're gonna recycling Bloomberg was an engineer I dont know. I said that I have the honour. I thought I'd rather use an engineer at one point: his sharp tat, maybe not a court
floors, another option few and go green besides, apparently with sustainable as well, because bamboo apparently is susceptible to spot Venus from exposure to uv, while both her by a court is taken. Still, but you need another stone in if you dont. If you live in a house where you have a room, that's not like the sun beating down I at all times. Maybe that's a good option like bathroom, exactly a bathroom that windows. You know that doctors office you want to do. That was man before design it at an unmistakable utopia of grass. For you what you get up You have a grass for bamboos grass. Withdraw tangled heaters. Obviously we might have before you have one. Are you just a fan now just Fan Parker,
not on demand heating in the idea here, as if you dont know about these. Is that your? U water, heater in your basement, if it's a tank water heaters, just a big tank full of water and it's always being kept hot so with it. If you need a shower, can be hot Vieira town for a week and they say turn it down, Don't stop me he'd, not water, for nothing on demand. Heating means they heat the water at the source. Then it flows into your Fawcett and is is hot upon demand set of keeping because you can have one for the whole, how that or if you just want to have won by like just rear dishwasher, you can do that, have like a small and there will be more expensive, but you get that money back. You save it eventually, so they will pay.
Yeah. What most of the stuff like solar heating and all that kind of thing and wind energy? That's all you know, there's a pay off the visually, so you just gotta, look at how long you're gonna be living there, how much the investment is. What can a tax breaks? You're gonna get in figure out if it makes sense for you or if you just got the dough, and you want to do but really green thing than just do it anyway. That's what I say who is my pants? Who is Nancy policy? There are two of the most powerful people in government today, but how they get there might be some Mauro and on who is the first package from now this- and I heard you I'll tell you the stories of the most important politicians in America and beyond through interviews with the reporters and experts who know them best there
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MRS Fiberglass and fiery less can be well, that's a good for the lungs, There are not enough, as it is a kid from Libya, Owens Corning, Ford town, they ve gotten better. But you still when you see that the deeds command they ve got on like that, has meant to anything my lining my home with, if these guys can't touch it or breathe it right. How about this blind you home instead with all genes aubergines a newspaper sprinkle, they spread the stuff in. If you ve seen it. I have in its fascinating and not only that it is a double duty. So not only are you getting, they say rates betters insulation you're, not using the harmful, potentially toxic, fiberglass and you're taken all this newspaper in blue jeans, saving it from the landfill sites like a triple wendy.
Right there soon or three have checked. I get countertops recycled paper and glass and aluminium. Concrete is really popular, these days overdue, to use that post industrial flash concrete, that's right, but that's all the rage very trendy and of course the compact fluorescent light bulb controversial yeah, it's something onerous, it's become a source of hope, become a poster boy for cynics of the ability of one person to make any kind of change. Can Eurostat yeah well a lot of people dont use them because they complain that it's not a warm
Bob now and it's very cold. Yet they ve got a little bit better. They ve gotten warmer, but let's say you're, not a fan of it. Don't necessarily think that you have to go all or nothing if everyone in the country, if every household swat doubt one bald in their home, that would save enough energy to power. Three million homes for a year prevent nine billion pounds of greenhouse gases, which is the equivalent of eight hundred thousand cars running for a full year. Everyone, did one one, one bob not bad, and they last a lot longer the castle but more, but you save about forty dollars per Bob over its lifetime because they last ten thousand hours compared to about eight hundred two thousand hours and, like you said, if you don't like the the White Hugh, the compact fluorescent just put one in a place in your house that you don't spend it on a time in in pet yourself in the back that you did a little bit of good.
Key measure mean the poor software stand there in time. The florescent Bob see how long it lasts for quality assurance or in a lab code to stand and watch for ten thousand street hours. I wonder how it does an hour's. What is a break down to you? How many days is that several several days? So that's all I got its greener to renovate. It seems as a rule, but within that there are things you can do to be even greener or if you're gonna build from the ground up their ways to go about that, to make it greener as well, because, again, technically, a few demolish your house and recycle all that if in or if you run away and don't recycle anything demolishing was very choices. Greener took little cigar, I ain't nothin. I got nothing either
the voting weights in landfill. Yet we don't do the green thing alive. It's been awhile, we liked it touch these every now and then just touched it. It's been touched in touch this right. You want to learn more about all these green has the works. Has a entire channel dedicate degree the sub channel under science right? Don't skipping tape green into the heinous experimental bring about fifteen thousand returns? They said, Sir far it's time now for listener. Male lesser male Josh I got a couple of Zira one quick listener male than another, a list of movies that you called for little known or under proceeded movies,
some work quite is little known. Is he I gotta promise fear these, but first from Rachel hijacked, Josh and Jerry huge fan. You mentioned the snug inventor and I wanted to share little gossip. This is good, actually a unitary israeli asters to go ahead, yeah, but ass, a snug even gonna, say allegedly through the whole thing. Allegedly. Last weekend, my friend catered these snug inventors, daughters bar mitzvah. Allegedly it was some Trump country Club and Evanna was their allegedly allegedly. It wasn't an avant look alike who has paid to be there? That's right. The event was Broadway themed and the daughters face was photos onto a bunch of broadway banners like cats and Billy Elliot I've been to a New York Broadway being bought myth over forty million people, some dough, my friend work, the martini bar and allegedly did not get a single tip and that's the scoop from Rachel, allegedly.
And now the little known movies are under appreciated movies. What the exact call for overlooked, overlooked, attack attack the gas station is a korean film. I have since I have not seen it, we had like three or four people send in them being there, which I I've seen it, but I've heard it sounds familiar scrape sellers, how as right here, but it was not overlooked because made thirty million dollars concerning I'm pretty good and it was nominated for two academy awards, one of which one supporting at your, maybe they mean like by the average person I think the knave Linda. I was specifically asking for movie suggestions for me will being there. I saw capturing the Friedman lessons oh my god that movie man the whole time I was like they did it, they didn't do it, they did it, they didn't do it. I just sit back and watch
It was like a wow. This is crazy. What do you think it in? Did you think they didn't? I didn't do it I think, the Sunday I dont think either did I don't need, I think the dead had written, probably not square for people yeah. I think the dad had a definite issues and he admitted as such, but I don't think he did it and yet caught for stuff you didn't get caught, for he got great marine areas. Well, documented one nice, lady sitting in the movie Office space Nazi terribly overlooked. It depends on the crowd you run without me. If you hang out with people who play shop shuffle board regularly, yes office space may have been overlooked. It was overlooked in the theatres became
yet on video right. You know what was overlooked in the theater so that shouldn't have been lifted was extract. His third movie- and it was a very good report, but idiocy was arson. I thought it was ok. It's already low over me didn't hear the premise sort of us. I carry it's a wonder promise and it got old now thirty day well with the words. One thumbs up, condoms medium, the last world someone's and then in the excellent Martens, foresees a film about the bands last performance which, how dare you seem like a hundred. I am alien apocalypse during the great great Bruce Campbell. I've never heard this and quacks her fortune has a cousin in the Bronx. Look the seven and sounds pretty good. Jean wilder Jean wildly. You can go wrong, networking of your mother nineteenth and everything the original producers, I've always, namely the first twenty minutes and it's hilarious yeah, it's great team. While there was the man the profit,
which was an awesome, greedy western written by a cave. Did you see that you're hiding possible, though this is one and only right guy appears now? Is it really in western Europe no, if all sends the right word like pretty good at the two, but I mean I was expecting more from, and I must say at once and for all western thing. I'm gonna recommend the the Jesse James Movie that Brad Pitt was in the destination christian. Yet I have not seen the man, it is our son, I'm my western pick. Yes, a ravenous, it ravens is great
I Pearson Jerry psychic ass. Your comment on, and people like to hear the so someone recommended the movie select the key New York Schenectady, its inequity, a true. Well, it's a greek word and it means I can't remember what it means, but it has to do with the play on the words Schenectady. So the greek word means a play on words now it, but he asked conservative. I can remember exactly what it means when it's a really really weird movie by Charlie Kaufmann, and I thought it was Schenectady, ok, son. I Kaufmann and Philip Seymour happened. The grateful happen there. I saw him Meta carbon time anyway, and I think you told a story that lets you that some of the current economic crisis, the baron- you have told this story now The story about seeing Riley Poem, confusing John boy because of the crisis there
Someone recommended Danny Boil: siphoned movie, sunshine wit, that was awesome interior. Parker God. I've never seen a movie unravel more decidedly than that and have never been more disappointed in like into a movie and then disappointed by had ended. My guess is really great to appoint and then a movie called forty four inch chest with the great re whinstone any greater in Mcshane who was Swearingin How do you see the owner of the hotel? Machine was like that is the big dog down errors were engine? Was Raven sentiment chain are also, and sexy, beast slow rulings- donors- yes, yes, so also in an added in rightness down, but I'm glad I thought of it in Bruce Call a fairer
on Pharaoh and Re Whinstone, which is an awesome, awesomely, ok and then. Finally, this is at the last minute like right before we recorded a german film called downfall, and I don't know anything about it, so I cannot recommend nor dissuaded from seeing that you know the one she soon as the humans and I'm not seen and heard. I saw a trailer for I really want to see its offer and I guess, Sir, if you ve never seen cats live, go I'll go check that year mean those two minutes a movie. If you say hide me a check. It tells you shut. Sanderson email at stuff. Podcast house for a start, for more or less in thousands of other topics for the house up works icon to learn more about the podcast click on the podcast icon.
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