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Article: Smart planting: David Tuch explains how conscious planting can help reduce a building's heating and cooling costs.(GREEN ROOTS)
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Over the last five issues of New Life Journal's Green Roots, I, along with other cohorts at Equinox Environmental, have written about some of the fundamental concepts of sustainable landscapes. In the final installment of this series, I want to address how plants and other landscape features can be used to modify indoor temperatures in our homes and buildings.
Designing a landscape with energy efficiency in mind means thinking of the seasons--the cold winter months and the warm summer months in particular. Energy conscious landscape design can reduce heating and cooling costs and help create comfortable environments that are buffered against harsh weather. But ...