Sustainable Green Living? Get Started With 10 Simple Actions to Environmental Improvement |
Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Energy’
The Controversy of Wind Turbines and Alternative Energy Part II
May 12th, 2009 | 
In my last post I wrote about the controversy surround wind turbines. Here are a couple of links to news stories about them.
The first story is about the negative effects wind turbines can have, especially when they are placed extremely close to people’s homes.
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/ontario/video/index.html?releaseID=1100636061
The second story has to do with Toronto Hydro’s plans to build a wind farm off of the shores of the Scarborough Bluffs in Lake Ontario.
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/ontario/video/index.html?releaseID=1101943611
Both are very interesting and I encourage you to watch them.
As I have mentioned before, we need to move towards green energy, but that move can not override all other aspects of life. We need to make sure that we are considering noise levels, wild life, and other environmental impacts. It’s only if we do this that we will truly be able to consider the energy green.
Posted in 
Tags: 
Stimulus Spending that for Conservation
Finally… I finally hear about someone who wants to use some of the federal stimulus money to help conserve energy. Not to spend it on some expensive alternative energy project - but to simply encourage building “green homes” and retrofit existing homes. What a practical approach
Here’s one comment made about Jacksonville’s plans with regards to 8 million dollars of stimulus money.
“So there’s a framework for a strategic plan,” Stewart says. “But to say we have one would not be true.”
She even went on to talk about sustaining the projects and staff in the future. Here’s someone who is thinking not just about the environment, not just about the economy, but both the environment and the economy and how they can work together.
You can read the rest of the article at WOKV.Com.