If you live in an older home, chances are your exterior walls have no insulation in them, creating a less green environment. However, insulation in newer 'green' homes are actually damaging the environment.
Renovation Design Group, via Deseret News
Our take: Think your new 'green' home is good for the environment? Think again. Houses are being insulated with materials that are related to DDT, according to Kalliopi Monoyios's article in Business Insider. Monoyios said another material found is HBCD which affects the nervous system could be around for decades even if production ceases immediately. Monoyios shares more about the harm of new 'green' homes:
"Newer homes are remarkably energy tight thanks to superior insulating materials that are in wide circulation today.
The energy savings can be substantial homeowners can use up to 60 percent less energy in the most efficient green homes.
Now, a study published by a team of researchers in Building Research & Information makes it clear that the very materials that provide us with such energy efficiency are pumped full of harmful flame retardant chemicals."
Read more about 'Green' homes hurting the environment on Business Insider.
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@LDS Tree Hugger,
Perhaps you should take the time and go read the referenced article before you declare it to be "poppy cock."
I will quote the following from the article:
"These chemicals, HBCD More..
The headline is needlessly imprecise and thus misleading. Green homes are not harmful; certain building materials used in green homes contain components that are harmful. I understand the constraints of space, but the headline seems calculated to More..
This is poppy-cock.
How can using 2x6 exterior frames in lieu of 2x4s
or Triple paned windows
or
adding 2 extra inches of fiberglass insulation to
TRIPLE home energy efficiency possible cause "more" toxic More..