This was a neat little piece on people who choose to live in unheated homes from a couple of weeks ago in The New York Times. An extreme manifestation of green urbanism, perhaps? They certainly minimize their home heating-related emissions, but the experience of the woman on the last page seems to imply a tradeoff (she has to keep her sink dripping and toilet constantly running so as to keep the pipes from freezing).
Of course, these people could avoid both high heating bills and frigid temperatures just by moving to LA... ;-)
Photo credit: Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times
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