Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Silver View Post
I will admit that I'm not a naturally "green" person although I've always respected the cause...but when you combine good stewardship of the environment with good economics, you will achieve wide scale change in behavior. This is where we are today...
Oh great, another thing me to replace Way to save money and the enviornment Mr. S.

I've always championed the enviornment but now I really don't care why people make greener choices. I'm a teeny tiny cog in a beeeeg company but am on the safety crew for our building and hence get to be in long meetings with building services management for the East Bay. Lucky me.

So I talked to the guy, hey, "we own the buildings, why not go solar?" He said the company is exploring options but wants things with a quick return like 2 years.

In San Francisco the city gives additional incentives above the normal tax and PG&E stuff for solar and replacing lighting. We'd be fools not to do it there. "it's under review blah blah blah"

He said they are replacing all windows with ones that better reflect light/heat in summer and retain in winter, there are recycle bins everywhere .... lots of other projects too.

I am sharing information with him on LED's. I'm sure he's aware. Co's have reaped tremendous savings by replacing those mandated illuminated EXIT signs with LED. We have what are locally called BART boards, lit rolling announcement boards in call centers. They could easily be LED right now.

I don't care why people choose "greener" choices initially or on replacement even if it's just cheaper or for fashion whatever. Just do it.