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You should ask the indigenous of the Great North like Alaska and Russia. Igloos actually will hold to the 60s even when it's -60. Assuming your fire doesn't go out.
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In areas where temperatures can drop to -50 degrees, you may find the inside temperature of an igloo to be 20 to 70 degrees warmer than the outside temperatures. That would be -30 to 20*
I've heard about places that require little to no indoor climate control. If you know of any, whether it be some tiny mountain town or coastal community, post them here. Please be specific.
The West Coast. The closer to the ocean you are, you won't need A/C. Seattle used to be one such city, but they've been having long heat waves the last several years, maybe even the last 10 years. (Except for last year.) Port Townsend, WA. Bellingham, WA. Probably Portland, OR . WA & OR do need heat from about mid-October through sometime in spring though.
Much of the SF Bay Area and "cities" (such as they are) in the far northwest of CA in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. Towns all the way down the coast from there through the Bay Area to Monterey Bay: Monterey and Santa Cruz. The LA beach towns: Santa Monica, etc. A friend of mine who grew up in LA said her house didn't even have heating or cooling. It wasn't needed.
However, times are changing. The Bay Area has been having heat waves, even as early as May in some years, on and off in summer, and in the fall. There always was a 2-week heat wave in September there but people just dealt with it. It was only.2 weeks out of the whole year. Now, there have been heat waves that can hit any time between about mid-May through October or so. And there are still winters every once in a while, usually corresponding to an El Nino or La Nina year, when the Bay Area gets snow. Usually only in the higher elevations, or farther inland away from the moderating effects of coast and Bay, but it's still a periodic thing, as it has been since more or less forever.
I use AC from early June to mid September in the Portland Metro. I almost never turn on the heater. The residual heat in my apartment keeps it warm enough for me 58-60F.
They don't have A/C in many Colorado homes and its miserable.
Friends of mine in CO built a straw bale home. It did a pretty good job of insulating against the heat, even with wall-to-wall windows in the living room area. I wasn't there at peak summer heat, though, but they were happy with it.
Friends of mine in CO built a straw bale home. It did a pretty good job of insulating against the heat, even with wall-to-wall windows in the living room area. I wasn't there at peak summer heat, though, but they were happy with it.
Wolves can blow it over... when they huff and puff. Read that somewhere.
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