[MassHistPres] solar panels in historic districts

[Garrett Laws]

Willa,

As I think I've posted in another response to the solar panel issue, having
an energy auditor look at a house and design a plan for installing energy
use reducing measures (insulation, air seepage reduction etc) would
potentially make the solar panel issue a mute point as the panels are more
expensive than the previous measures and don't "cover" the same factor of
use.

Cheers,
Garrett

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Willa Bandler <willa at keyfitz.org> wrote:

> Honestly, this is why many members of the general public hate
> preservationists. As long as we focus on making everything look pretty at
> the expense of what's good for our world, we lose. The past wasn't
> sanitized, and neither is the present; solar panels are, it is true, not
> pretty, but neither is global warming, and neither were the streets full of
> horse manure that abutted many of these houses when they were originally
> built.
>
> The environmental benefits of preservation are huge, and if there's any
> future in either movement, we need to work together. (For what it's worth, I
> feel every bit as strongly about the environmentalists who foolishly believe
> destructive insulation and window replacement projects are necessary and
> important parts of environmentalism.)
>
> I don't post here much (I think this may be my second post to the list
> ever?) because I'm not a professional or even an HDC member, just a
> past-and-hopefully-future grad student at BU, but I've been subscribed to
> this list for several years, and I often find it frustrating that people are
> devoting so much energy to judging their neighbors' mailboxes, basketball
> hoops, free newspaper boxes outside businesses, and the like, while every
> day I see historic houses that are condemned and will soon be bulldozed.
> Preserving history in a meaningful way doesn't always mean making it look
> like a movie set.
>
> -Willa Bandler
>
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