Posts Tagged ‘Sustainable Manner’

As I’ve said before, in order to use alternative energy sources in a sustainable manner, we need to make sure that the organizations providing the service and technology are making a reasonable profit – but not gouging us just because the power is “green”.

Does manufacturing a wind turbine cost that much more than coal stations (per Kilowatt hour)? Does operating a wind turbine cost that much more?

In most cases the answer is no. Operating a wind turbine might even cost less.

In relation to this, Jay Hancock recently posted on his blog questions about green energy certificates in Maryland. He says…

You can read the rest of Jay’s post at Jay Hancock’s Blog.

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.

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.