eco bling

If you are attaching some solar panels to a building that is fundamentally poorly designed for its environment, and you are doing this more to impress people with your zeal for saving the environment than to actually save power, then this technological gadgetry can be described as eco bling.  If your starting point is a house that is guzzling power to be heated or cooled, then the situation is not going to be remedied by a few solar panels. There has to be a more fundamental shift to architecture and systems that use a lot less power.

There has been some discussion about whether the RMIT Hub in Melbourne (pictured above) is truly making a contribution to environmental sustainability or is just eco bling.

The antidote to eco bling is eco-minimalism, the theory governing the production of buildings which are truly environmentally sustainable and which can make a genuine contribution to the task of limiting our greenhouse gases.