Comments on: A Look At The Smart Home: What’s Already Here, And What’s Slated To Come? https://planetsave.com/articles/look-smart-home-whats-already-whats-slated-come/ Science, Animals, Planet Earth, & More Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Zachary Shahan https://planetsave.com/articles/look-smart-home-whats-already-whats-slated-come/#comment-18359 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:49:00 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=40449#comment-18359 In reply to Green Girl Success.

Good points. Can’t disagree. I think the smart technology can help, but there are much bigger fish to fry.

]]> By: Green Girl Success https://planetsave.com/articles/look-smart-home-whats-already-whats-slated-come/#comment-18358 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:28:00 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=40449#comment-18358 I’m not sure that a smart home will help reduce consumption. The LG fridge seems to encourage food waste and if any of these homes are oversized and in the suburbs, you have a host of other tradeoffs including filling the house with ‘stuff’, stormwater runoff, sprawl, obesity, etc…

What we really need is smaller homes, smaller appliances, walkable neighborhoods and a shared economy. Technology will not save us and it can be financially out of reach for the majority of the population.

Here’s an article for thought… http://greengirlsuccess.com/2014/06/03/green-tech-or-low-tech/

]]> By: Jenna Pizzigati-Coppola https://planetsave.com/articles/look-smart-home-whats-already-whats-slated-come/#comment-18357 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:28:00 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=40449#comment-18357 Ingenious design- behold the power of modern technology…

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