Richard Burbank, who came to the last MGC meeting is teaching a number of courses for energy efficiency professionals. Details available at: http://www.evergreenbuildingscience.com/
August 17, 2008
August 8, 2008
Sustainability Post #28 — Paying all costs.
One of the problems which prevents sustainability being the obvious choice, is that many costs are hidden.
One small solution that a friend of mine uses, is to include in the cost of any new electronic devices he buys. the cost of enough photovoltaic panels to run said device. The money goes in a special account, and when enough accumulates, another PV panel is purchased.
August 1, 2008
Sustainability Post #27 — Attitudes.
The other day I was driving, and feeling guilty about it. This made me grumpy.
Then I had an epiphany, here I was using up fossil fuels, adding to the CO2 in the atmosphere and other detrimental effects and it was making me miserable. That’s crazy. I resolved to enjoy the time I am driving, to squeeze not only as much efficiency, but also as much happiness out of each gallon of gas. If I wasn’t going to be happy, I wasn’t going to use fuel to accomplish it.
