Comments on: It’s Still Cool to Be Green

By: Green Purchasing Up, Despite Economy « My News Clips

Green Purchasing Up, Despite Economy « My News Clips — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:39:30 +0000

[...] environmentally friendly, sometimes cost more, half of the 1,000 people surveyed reported they are buying as many green products now as they were before the downturn. Additionally, 19 percent say they are buying more green [...]

By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:09:42 +0000

I like the idea behind ‘sensible’, but I think we almost need a made-up word that pulls into it all of the meanings we need. As to the coolness aspect of being green, I’d say it will be giving way to sensibility and utility. For instance, I started with some really hip canvas bags, but they were always in the trunk! So there I was, taking plastic again. So I got some “less cool” bags, with very high utility (you can carry 5 of them in your purse – http://www.breezybags.com). I mentioned these before, but I’m sold because of the utility value. The same is true with data centers: companies are not “going green” to be cool. They are doing it because it is effective (saves money on electricity and cooling). And too bad that they can’t make enough Tesla cars for the current demand! Only the rich and famous are getting them (supposed to be ramping up production, though).

By: Bill Webber

Bill Webber — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:09:17 +0000

I’m delighted that Green is Cool and finally catching on. We were first “sensitized” during the gasoline crisis in the ’70′s, when folks were first talking about the Greening of America. Nothing much happened after that and the electric car was “killed” by GM in favor of the Hummer. In spite of that, we got EcoVillage at Ithaca up and running in the ’90′s and since 2000 we’ve been living in a solar house in Civano in Tucson with 2.5kW of PV’s on our garage roof, 51 cfl’s, a solar powered swamp cooler, rainwater harvesting (800 gal), composting, recycling, cloth shopping bags, and on our second hybrid (Civic), etc. At times we felt it might all be for naught and we were just wasting our time and money on some foolish pipe dream. It was a very lonely feeling. It feels so wonderful to know that our instincts long ago may have been right and people are taking climate change and conservation and clean, fossil-fuel free energy seriously. Let’s hope that under the new administration the “green-collar” economy will also catch on.

By: Linda Sones

Linda Sones — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:45:52 +0000

Perhaps the new word should be ‘sensible’ because it makes sense to reduce our carbon footprint. Great post!