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A Hybrid Moving Truck… Excellent
April 8th, 2009 | 
I keep saying that we need to make steps towards improvement that are sustainable. It appears that Atlas has a similar opinion.
Here’s an excerpt from an article about the first hybrid moving van.
There it is right there - economics and environmentally friendly working together in order to create sustainability. Let’s hope that we see more of these trucks on the road in the near future (hauling environmentally friendly products).
In fact, consulting on these trucks might be a nice new profit center for Atlas – just be responsible about it and don’t overcharge. Remember, it is about the environment.
You can read the rest of the article at 14WFIE
Sustainability - Both Environmentally and Economically
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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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.