Restricting, not: culling the species

[Deborah Harrell]

> On Fri, 6/13/08, Pat Mathews <mathews55 at msn.com> wrote:

> One more answer to Debbi - this time about GreenTechnology -
> as I sit here in my midcentury box in the desert with the
> swamp cooler running - people used to build for the
> climate. There once was a huge body of knowledge about how
> to do so. No high tech required; just the good services of
> an historian and an architect working in tandem. And
> wouldn't I dearly love to have a house built to such
> standards today without tearnign mine down and redoing it
> totally! Alas; a midcentury box (though rather charming in
> many ways) was what I could afford. And those were designed
> around the presence - the ubiquity - of the a/c.

If I _had_ a swamp cooler, there are many days in July and August when I'd use it...but sweat and a fan must suffice!

Debbi
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