building green

Title : Living Green - Building Green

Author : 이찬승, 황우연, 안세정, 구은영, 김진홍, 이종은

Publisher & Year : 능률교육, 2009

Vocabularies : N/A

Summary : In recent years, many people are trying to balance the needs of people with the protection of nature. For example, many archetects have built 'green buildings' .These buildings are designed to save energy and water and make use of materials that do not damage the environment. They are a little different compared to other regular buildings. They have large windows let the sunshine in, gardens on their roofs, systems to reuse water. Also, they use bamboo for floors instead of wood. Although there are only small number of green buildings existing, slowly but surely, the buildings are getting healthier and greener.

Comment : This chapter was pretty interesting. Those green buildings were featured with most of the things that i wanted buildings to have. I'm not saying it's perfect but i'm just saying that it had 'most' of the things in my mind. I wish they could have mentioned of more scientifical things such as those lights using sun energy. I thought that the article was a little boring because it was only focusing on those 'environmental things'. It was too old-fashioned. In the begining it said 'in recent years' but it wasn't really talking about 'recent years'. It wasn't talking about how science have made the world to be more healthier and greener. As I continue to read, i felt as if we are only depending on to the environment. I believe that many of the inventions of human have had helped our world to become greener.