But after shedding my sweatshirt, my spirits were buoyed: Narita Airport seemed, well, climate-appropriate, nice even.
But nowadays, construction companies are avoiding using materials from the local environment and indigenous practices – since they are more costly and labour intensive – and instead are creating concrete structures with glass facades, which are neither visually attractive nor climate-appropriate.
"Unlike traditional programs that provide an audit and a customized package of solutions for each home," the Clinton memorandum notes, Houston "offers a fixed set of interventions that include climate-appropriate 'low hanging fruit.' " The bottom line is that cash for caulkers would be trickier than cash for clunkers — yet would have the potential to do far more good.
Wherever you are in the world, at the cobbler you'll find the clever, climate-appropriate artifacts of the local culture: roped espadrilles in Spain and Greece; in Stockholm, felt insoles that are the key to warm feet in the Northern European winter.
Climate-appropriate species selection and site conditions may have also played a role in East Palo Alto's exceptionally high survival.
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His main gripe was that detainees don't receive any climate-appropriate clothing other than their working clothes, which they are not allowed to wear outside working hours.
Part of Peter Regli's Reality Hacking, an ongoing public intervention series, his climate-appropriate sculptures took to the streets earlier this week to "interrupt the routine of the commuter and provide a humorous diversion within the wintry New York landscape".
It was acknowledged that there needed to be outreach to growers to encourage the development of more climate-appropriate nursery stock as, under current conditions, there were insufficient appropriate trees being supplied by the nursery industry.
