Land8 | Deborah Godshall | Activity https://land8.com/members/deborahgodshall/activity/ Activity feed for Deborah Godshall. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 47c1d2f70095aa0905ab12763dc98c55 Deborah Godshall replied to the topic Anyone else think the new construction slow down is a good thing? in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-think-the-new-construction-slow-down-is-a-good-thing/#post-175091 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:08:10 +0000 Your reply seems to assume that we need to keep building in order to have food and shelter? IMO a crisis is the perfect time to find solutions to what causes the problem in the first place. My assurtion is that we need to find a way to seporate the two. There also seems to be a tone that there is not enough housing. The glut of excess housing is…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ff1f0a6e70f2f7909a99fbd86128fa9 Deborah Godshall replied to the topic Anyone else think the new construction slow down is a good thing? in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-think-the-new-construction-slow-down-is-a-good-thing/#post-175093 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:13:47 +0000 David,
I’ll have to look for the film. Thanks
The big question that I seem to have is can we have a booming economy WITHOUT covering every trace of buildable land with a house?

]]> 0 d2dde35a7fe95d18cb6dc10dea09940e Deborah Godshall replied to the topic Anyone else think the new construction slow down is a good thing? in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-think-the-new-construction-slow-down-is-a-good-thing/#post-175095 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:24:59 +0000 Dennis, LOL I agree we as LAs are both the victim and the villan in this. I have been struck by how we (the us public) are quick to try to fix the sympoms such as hybrid cars etc instead of looking at the real cause of enviromental issues such as sprawl. We all find ourselves speaking out of both sides of our mouths when we give lip service to…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f46a69a6cf10f60f576c5edfef07d66 Deborah Godshall replied to the topic Anyone else think the new construction slow down is a good thing? in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-think-the-new-construction-slow-down-is-a-good-thing/#post-175097 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:34:40 +0000 Steve, I think LEED is great but I think we need to go farther towards conservation subdivisions, and even changing the actual land stripping activities. Development can be smart from the ground up!
The almighty dollar is a real double edged sword. I’ve worked on many sides of this issue and know that if we could find a better way many developers…[Read more]

]]> 0 b33feed5e3578c95960e0ffc3a0cf6af Deborah Godshall replied to the topic Anyone else think the new construction slow down is a good thing? in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-think-the-new-construction-slow-down-is-a-good-thing/#post-175099 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:39:11 +0000 LOL, what’s a little drama?

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