When Hurricane Sandy hit last week and the power in my lower Manhattan apartment went out, my first thought, as I dug around for candles and LED lamps was “Well this will be a fun little off-grid adventure!” I naively harbored some romantic notion of the coziness of eating dinner and playing...
Lots more clean transport news from the past couple days or so:
Electric Cars
Tesla Motors Reports Positive Cash Flow For The First Time: “Right on time for a Christmas miracle, the shining star of the electric vehicle movement has perhaps what is the best news for EV owners and advocates all over...
It’s delusional to think that the price of gasoline or electricity produced by fossil fuel will EVER go down. Any finite resource you consume gets more expensive as that resource depletes.
Getting mad at big energy and gas companies SCREWING you out of your hard earned dollars is NOT WISE. You’re...
By: Matt Bartlett
When I first got involved in the solar industry, it was to build a successful business offering something that helped people save money on their energy bills and reduce their carbon emissions.
But over the years, as we grew the company, I began to better understand our clients, myself,...
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Taking action on a plan to change your energy consumption habits to benefit your personal finances, and help the environment requires major commitment. Anyone who makes the choice to accept FULL, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, and takes action is quite literally a hero. We call these people Sustainability...
Many Americans waste money on things that steal from their financial freedom. Accumulating large amounts of bad debt on big houses, expensive cars, and credits cards seems to be the American Dream these days.
To achieve a high level of personal financial freedom you absolutely must pay close attention...
Today, most households in the United States are addicted to fossil fuel. In fact, we quite literally burn fossil fuel like there is no tomorrow. Many of our every day comforts are tied directly to this addiction and inevitably this cannot be sustained. Whether it’s 5, 10 or 20 years down the road,...
Published on Aug 16 2011
// Energy, energy independence, Environment, environmental sustainability, financial freedom, fossil fuel, Money and Business, personal finance, solar electric, solar energy, solar hot water
As human beings it’s in our nature to seek fast and convenient solutions to our problems. Unfortunately, many of the most serious problems we face in the modern world require long-term thinking and planning; things like our personal finances and energy consumption.
The Expediency Factor is our deeply...