Kapor Klein House model, Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects There is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful. Neighbours, architects and others call it “absurd” that the house should be called green, saying its 10,000 square feet

is far too big. One neighbour complains that “green building begins with using ‘just enough’ and preserving what already exists. Clearly the idea of ‘just enough’ is not part of the design concept.” But how much is too much?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can One Call Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley House "Green"?