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A Green Guide for Native Americans



Mesa Verde, in the southwest corner of what is now Colorado, was home to the Pueblo people for 700 years. It's an example of sustainable building practices in which a native people produced durable and comfortable housing with locally sourced materials--goals the new green housing toolkit would try to revive in tribal housing.


Representatives of tribal nations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have produced a guide designed to help tribal nations recreate the sustainable-building practices that once were a hallmark of tribal housing.

Native Americans were the first green architects and builders on the continent, the toolkit's introduction points out, basing their designs for housing on cultural values informed by an "intimate knowledge" of place, climate, resources, and technology.

"Traditionally, tribes built structures from local resources and without written codes," the document continues. "These structures were safe, healthy, and energy and water efficient."

Modern tribal housing, however, often isn't as successful, in part because tribal nations are sovereign, and not subject to state or local building codes, and typically don't have the resources to develop green-building codes of their own.

There are some 2.1 million tribal housing units in the U.S., according to the Toolkit, more than 8% of which are considered overcrowded. Nearly 3% of all tribal households lack plumbing facilities (five times the proportion of all U.S. households), with a similar share of tribal housing lacking complete kitchen facilities.

while the condition on most reservations,.. as well as in other blighted American inner cities.. needs to be addressed,.. this is a complete waste of time ,..(except for those who were paid to think it up, I am sure they used every last dime available to put it together)

Do they really think this will help?

cause if it works... then we need to let the muslims know how important they are to NASA and modern science...


ok,.. no TeePee jokes about where to put the pottie,.. if the kitchen should be indoor or outdoor?


they did come up with a wonderful set of designs that should appease everyone..



the upper right structure was controversial at first until the liberal critics realized it is now called an islamic refugee conversion center
that could later serve as a holding center for banned Christians..
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