Episode 4: Surprise CO2 Savings
Skinning the home’s exterior with salvaged clay roof tiles, stone, brick and reclaimed redwood shingles yields surprising savings in CO2, prompting the CarbonShack team to develop a calculator to measure embodied energy, and they finally learn the results of the CarbonShack's application to LEED For Homes, an exhaustive assessment of a project’s green building features.
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Green Building & Design Brief: CarbonShack's Casa Zero in Los Angeles Celebrates the Wild Within. Designers carefully measured the home’s embodied carbon and the home features unexpected, artistic odes to plant, animal, and fungal life.