U-2 can call it home : a conversation wiht John Picard / interviewed by Barbara Dunlap.

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U-2 can call it home : a conversation wiht John Picard / interviewed by Barbara Dunlap.
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PRA Archive #: 
SZ0653
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Builder John Picard explains why he chose recycled steel to frame his environmental house. Other features include: a black concrete floor for solar thermal mass and reduced carpet dirt, a sun-tracking photovoltaic system, energy-efficient appliances, superinsulation (even in Southern California), and drip-irrigated landscaping. Picard goes on to discuss how low-bid construction practices preculude durable and resource-conserving housing, and tells how his own construction values where transformed.|U-2 CAN CALL IT HOME : A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN PICARD / interviewed by Barbara Dunlap. - SERIES: New signals| no. 17/12/91 - Builder John Picard explains why he chose recycled steel to frame his environmental house. Other features include: a black concrete floor for solar thermal mass and reduced carpet dirt, a sun-tracking photovoltaic system, energy-efficient appliances, superinsulation (even in Southern California), and drip-irrigated landscaping. Picard goes on to discuss how low-bid construction practices preculude durable and resource-conserving housing, and tells how his own construction values where transformed. - RECORDED: 17 Dec. 1991. BROADCAST: KPFK, 17 Dec. 1991.

Date Recorded on: 
17 Dec. 1991.
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Item duration: 
1 reel (51 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., stereo.|50:30
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Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1991.
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