Swedes and German homes ahead of ours in U.S.

I had a growing feeling the past few years that we were lagging the Europeans in building energy science. Now this is eloquently expressed here by Jerry Yudelson:

Yudelson said European countries tend to lead the U.S. in sustainable building practices because Europeans “don’t like to waste resources. You go to a country like Sweden and find they’re on the pathway to get off imported oil by 2020 and Germans want to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050,” he said. “When you have those ambitious goals, you have to go to work seriously on these issues.

“Future green construction may follow European models” , Sam Bennett, Professional Builder web site, January 2009