{"id":1620,"date":"2010-05-24T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2010-05-24T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:37:17","slug":"recycle-more-than-just-your-water-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/05\/recycle-more-than-just-your-water-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle More than Just Your Water Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

guest blogger:\u00a0\u00a0Lisa Mroszczyk<\/p>\n

Recycle your house and neighborhood.<\/p>\n

During National Preservation Month<\/a>, the National Trust for Historic Preservation reminds us that just as old buildings are sustainable, so are old communities. Older communities are often built closer to economic centers, they are smaller and have viable existing infrastructure, and can be retrofitted for walking, biking, and transit use. In contrast, developing previously undeveloped land is energy and material intensive and can have significant environmental impacts.\u00a0The rehabilitation and reuse of buildings in denser, centrally located historic districts and the preservation of agricultural land prevents sprawl and reduces impacts on the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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efficient land use and existing infrastructure can make it easy to walk.<\/p><\/div>\n

Architect Carl Elefante, author of \u201cThe Greenest Building Is…One That Is Already Built<\/a>,\u201d describes the relationship of preservation to green design:\u00a0 \u201cEven if, with the wave of a green wand, every building constructed from this day hence has a vegetative roof, is powered only with renewable energy sources, and is built entirely of environmentally appropriate materials, sustainability would still be far from fully realized.\u00a0 Seeking salvation through green building fails to account for the overwhelming vastness of the existing building stock\u2026We cannot build<\/em> our way to sustainability; we must conserve<\/em> our way to it<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nearly one third of the County is in the Agricultural Reserve, making for a diverse environment that includes diverse jobs and lifestyles<\/p><\/div>\n

So remember, next time you choose to reinvest in older and historic buildings or live in a historic home, you are being green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

guest blogger:\u00a0\u00a0Lisa Mroszczyk<\/p>\n

Recycle your house and neighborhood.<\/p>\n

During National Preservation Month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation reminds us that just as old buildings are sustainable, so are old communities. Older communities are often built closer to economic centers, they are smaller and have viable existing infrastructure, and can be retrofitted for walking, biking, and transit use. In contrast, developing previously undeveloped land is energy and material intensive and can have significant environmental impacts.\u00a0The rehabilitation and reuse of buildings in denser, centrally located historic districts and the preservation of agricultural land prevents sprawl and reduces impacts on the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Architect Carl Elefante, author of \u201cThe Greenest Building Is…One That Is Already Built,\u201d describes the relationship of preservation to … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,3],"tags":[130,128],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","tag-historic-buildings","tag-historic-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}