Due to some technical difficulites I've been out of commission so to jump back in here's a great story from grist.org.
NYC ex-pats like ourselves cashed out and dedicated their winnings to build green in Woody Creek, CO. Although, I would have assumed it was straw bale country out there, they went with a similar building envelope to ours. For us it's because of the climate and hurricane issues here in FL. What's great about the story is the frankness of the writer about building green within a budget. It lists some desired solutions and then what they actually ended up doing. The owner Daniel Shaw writes, "Our house is exposed, and we wanted wood siding. Reclaimed wood, of course. That nixed straw-bale insulation, because apparently the only guy in the world who can successfully attach wood siding to straw-bale walls lives in New Zealand. We decided to spend the money elsewhere, not on flying the Kiwi back and forth. So much for our utopian vision of getting all our friends to come stack straw bales in what has become the equivalent of a modern-day barn-raising in these parts. Compromise No. 2." Read more of their guilt free green building at the link.
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