The Southern Oregon Home of the future will be tigher than a tick and more insulated than a Trappist Monk, born from the quest to save energy by preventing heat loss in the winter and keeping heat out in the summer. It is my belief that the home of tomorrow in the Southern Oregon real estate market will rise to a new level of evolution as home builders and developers begin to incorporate the benefits of the passive solar design into their projects. Doesn't it make sense to orient homes to the south with a wall of energy friendly glass that warms a thermal mass in the winter time to take advantage of solar gain? At the moment, most developers are still thinking with a 20th Century mentality. The world of tomorrow mandates a new paradign of home design, where passive solar homes become the new flagship for home construction. Local building codes must begin to mandate the passive solar home design where a southern exposure is identified. The reward for adapting to this new paradign of neighborhood construction is energy independence from the oil controlling interests of OPEC, plus the strengthening of our economy by the creation of prosperous industries for alternative energy production that do not exist on a large scale today. Like our fore fathers who dumped tea into the Boston Bay, the road to energy independence will be perilous, but the rewards will be venerated by the generations of tomorrow.
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