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Sustainability - Both Environmentally and Economically
April 4th, 2009 | 
Want to live in a more sustainable manner - well of course you have to consider your finances. If you didn’t, it wouldn’t be sustainable.
Quite often those who advocate a green life have no concern for the costs involved. They just want to make change.
I would argue that change that is not sustainable is no change at all . People will revert to their old ways if they can not afford the new way of living.
Here’s how a contractor put it in a recent article.
“People are first interested in the design and aesthetics, then price and then the sustainability and how to green a project,” he says.
The pocketbook nearly always is a factor. “They want to know what the long-term payback is,” Halfhill says.
Rather than fighting this trend and trying to convince people that cost shouldn’t matter, we should be embracing it. We should be letting people know how they can have less impact on the environment with little to no impact on their environment.
I’m going to be sharing some more thoughts about this, but in the mean time you can read the rest of the article at DesMoinesRegister.Com.
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Tags: Aesthetics, Environmentally Friendly, Payback, Pocketbook, Sustainability, Sustainable Manner | 
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