Building Green

Title : Building Green
Author: Chang Seung Lee
Pulisher & Year : Neung reaul English & 2009
Summary: As the importance and the desperation for saving our ecosystem gets known to more ansd more people, there are new methods of saving the ecosystem. One is the move for ecofriendly buildings, green buildings. Green buildings are buildings that use the most amount of it's surroundings inorder to save the ecosystem getting destroyed by human use. For instance, the ue of big windows help to save the use of electricity. Clackamas High School in Oregon have notably big windows alowing the maximam amount of lite to get in. During the day time, the school rarely needs the lights to be turned on. Also, the building has special sensors that will automatically turn off the unused lights when it detects no sighn of human activity. In addition, the sun light keeps the building warm even in the winter with it's natural heat inported.
Another example can be the garden of Calhoun School. You might be curious why a garden would be so important and saves the ecosystem. The garden of this school is special: it's on top of the roof. Then, why would a garden be on top of the roof? It will allow more sun light for the plants growing, but it has a more important use. The thik layer of greens and durt helps to block the sun's heat from coming in at summer and traps the heat from going out in winter times.
As we can see, there are lots of movements to save our ecosystem. However, these are too big and expensive for us to do individually. In that case, we can just start with small things such as recyceling. Recycled materials are being used widely as another way of savisavig our ecosystem. Thus, those small things are dramatical helps to our ecosystem.