{"id":4515,"date":"2009-05-27T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2009-05-27T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T20:22:59","slug":"sunfiltered-do-solar-panels-belong-on-historic-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sunfiltered-do-solar-panels-belong-on-historic-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNfiltered: Do Solar Panels Belong on Historic Buildings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/05\/west-wing-1980-solar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4516\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/05\/west-wing-1980-solar.jpg\" alt=\"white house solar panels 1980\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;ve spent any amount of time in buildings with historical significance (and you probably have), you recognize that such structures are more than the sum of their physical parts. The confluence of design, material, and human action that occurred in those buildings allow you to step out of time momentarily, and experience how past generations imagined the combination of form and function as they created a built environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, imagine those same buildings with solar panels on the roof. Does that take away from the experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"category-links\">\n<li>&raquo; See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/1bog.org\">Low cost solar panels and energy efficiency retrofits through group purchasing.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&raquo; <a href=\"\/feed\/\">Get Sustainablog by RSS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=sustainablog\/org\">sign up by email<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/historic-architecture-vs-clean-energy\/\"><em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 Green Inc. blog<\/a> dove into that question this morning, and attempted to dissect a hot debate among preservationists. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fweather%2Fclimate%2Fglobalwarming%2F2007-03-20-gore-solar_N.htm&amp;ei=5GkdSu2HI4SUMqKhhO8F&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3bPyBH7A5i3gRnlg_9oTwR5PG2g&amp;sig2=C3fOkz4blrqGY7v6po6hIw\">Al Gore&#8217;s Nashville mansion<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethpeterson.org\/\">Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage in Wisconsin<\/a>, the preservation community is wrestling with &#8220;where the line is between acceptable and unacceptable green improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2009\/05\/do-solar-panels-belong-on-historic-buildings\/\">Sundance Channel&#8217;s SUNfiltered blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousemuseum.org\/west-wing.htm\">Bill Fitz-Patrick and whitehousemuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve spent any amount of time in buildings with historical significance (and you probably have), you recognize that such structures are more than the sum of their physical parts.&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":4516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1113,3394,3395,546,3396,541,3022],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SUNfiltered: Do Solar Panels Belong on Historic Buildings? 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