{"id":1012,"date":"2010-11-04T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2010\/11\/sustain-now\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:09:02","slug":"sustain-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2010\/11\/sustain-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustain now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you type \u201chow much\u201d<\/em> in Google, the second choice is \u201chow much house can I afford\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

It made me think about sustainable housing, I\u2019m reading fascinating stuff about it. I realized how much it was a huge game changer thing.<\/p>\n

A rent @ 1500 a month for 6 years equals 108 000. That\u2019s a lot of money. It bothers me that people pay rents for years for shitty places they will never own and that for the exact same amount of money they could afford to finance and build in a few months, a highly efficient passive house providing a really good quality of life for their family. Today. <\/p>\n

We need to spend more time on this problem. Now.<\/p>\n

The game changer thing is that for the first in history, we\u2019re disconnecting Quality of Life from income even for something as definitive as owning a house<\/strong>. Before, only people working like crazy and making a ton of money could afford nice and comfortable places we all deserve. Now with cheap material, highly efficient designs and technology costs going down all the time, there is no scarcity about it. It\u2019s actually the opposite.<\/p>\n

What I envision is that young people will at some point have mortgage to pay for owning their sustainable space. Instead of paying for education \u2013which is going to be soon all online, anytime, anywhere, for almost free- people will pay for their future home, maybe design and assemble it too.<\/p>\n

What would it be to work two jobs to pay the mortgage and going back home confident, to a durable nice shelter of yours instead of working two jobs, pay for education and huge rent for a poor place while not knowing if all that is going to make you live decently later? Why later again?<\/p>\n

I think the difference is mindblowing. I think it\u2019s going to make people so much less stressed out. At a big scale it might change the world in a way I can\u2019t even really imagine now.<\/p>\n

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Meet <\/em>Fincube<\/em><\/a>, a sustainable modular small house (47m\u00b2 505 sq\/feet). <\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway for now the focus is to get the price down and there\u2019s a lot of room for it: local, natural, recycle materials, new design, better efficiency<\/a>\u2026 Sustainable housing requires a lot of customization on site and that\u2019s another big plus: it drives small businesses, you know, 99.7% of employer firms<\/a> and usually around half or more of the economy of a country. <\/p>\n

By the way America, you lag very hard on the subject<\/a>: as today there\u2019s around 25 000 certified passive structures already built in Europe. There are 13 in the United States.<\/p>\n

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