{"id":382,"date":"2008-04-02T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:45:34","slug":"costly-prejudice-against-eco-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/costly-prejudice-against-eco-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly prejudice against eco-homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK study shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7324234.stm\">consumers perceive costs of eco-homes but are unaware of the benefits<\/a>.\u00a0 The survey suggests that people believe the quality of domestic services in eco-homes to be lower but more costly.\u00a0 This is in contrast to those that are buying or building eco-homes who do so because energy savings repay build costs within 5 years and eco-homes offer energy and food (in rural settings) security when the owner is older, earning power is diminished and energy costs are higher.\u00a0 It is a costly ignorance of the tradeoffs between traditional build and eco-build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK study shows that consumers perceive costs of eco-homes but are unaware of the benefits.\u00a0 The survey suggests that people believe the quality of domestic services in eco-homes to be lower but more costly.\u00a0 This is in contrast to those that are buying or building eco-homes who do so because energy savings repay build &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/costly-prejudice-against-eco-homes\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Costly prejudice against eco-homes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}