At Home in the Zone

At Home in the Zone

Sustainability doesn’t have to mean monasticism and darkness—with this zone-by-zone guide to the domestic world you know best, going green can be both more efficient and fun.
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Life was much harder when humans lived in caves. Consider a typical Sunday dinner: First we’d have to go out and whack a mammoth; then we’d have to invent a wheel to schlep the mammoth back to the cave; then we’d have to collect sticks and dung and figure out a way for the whole mess to catch fire.

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Dan Maginn
Dan Maginn is an architect with DRAW Architecture + Urban Design. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and son, in a cantankerous old terra-cotta-colored house.​

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