<> html,body{border:0px;} td {border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;} I am under some significant pressure at home to buy into Puget Sound Energy's Green Power Program. Theoretically, this will at $10 to $12 a month to the "average customer's bill". Despite my philosophical problems with taxing my own family for the good of the whole at the cost of roughly $100/year, I think I'm going to lose this battle from the philosophical standpoint. So now, I'm trying to use the corporate mistrust argument to prevent giving any more $ to PSE.The Green Power Program says that is gets it power from wind (61%), biomass (28%), solar (1%), and "LOW-IMPACT HYDRO(10%). As a kayaker and river lover, I bristle at the thought of supporting any more hydro power and I don't trust PSE to decide what is actually "Low-impact". Thoughts?

I am so Sick of this Green Crap. It is just another bucket of non-sense that businesses pitch our way to sell us crap. I am serious too. Every Green Initiative I have seen in the business world stems from either marketing or profitability.

Starbucks started turning all the little sleeves for cups Green as part of the marketing campaign. Oh wait same exact cardboard sleeve that used to be un-colored and now were going to color them all green, because that shows were green. So were going to use ink, printing & power and a bunch of resources because were green now, the stinking cup holders were more green back when they were brown.

New company policy, don't print your emails if you don't need to because we are going green, well actually we found out that the cut down on paper was a great savings so were going green and very interested in pitching that.

I have a test for all you. Start listening to the words on radio, tv or any other ad. Your going to hear stuff like, Your interest is our Interest, or We are everywhere you are ... etc.. Really start paying attention and you will quickly see that most of the things that are pitched at you these days are either completely lies or totally without any basis for truth. I also hate to say this but it was not always like this, I have a 1908 Sears Robuck Catalog and some other 1890-1910 publications and the ads are very very different in terms of verbiage. I also don't think it is because of language and grammar changes, I personally think that if businesses tried to pull stuff like what we see today back then folks would read or hear it and question what they were being told, then make a choice. We tend to make a choice and then if it turns out the wrong way we start to question it....

I may be wrong about this but wasn't a label similar to low impact hydro used by power companies in California to get people behind the idea of lobbying for hydro power plants in BC? The term low impact hydro does not note where the low impact will be felt; by the public, or by the company trying to build the dam.

I like the bunch of solar panels idea.... but PSE has the benefit because, for only $10 a month, they can make my wife feel like a better person but the installation cost of the solar panels would cost more than $10/month on the loan repayment schedule. However, do have a friend of a friend in Bellingham that claims that they are paying the same amount after installing solar panels because their electric bill is so much lower that it makes up for the additional cost of the loan payment. Maybe I'll look into it... I do have a pretty nice south facing roof area. <> html,body{border:0px;} td {border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;}

Hey now!!!! I just started, and I'm on a roll. Plus there are other ways of solving this problem,  I'm just saying.

Careful what you wish for.  If you'd like to live under a "china-like population management policy" where you have to get a permit to procreate, consider what else you might need goverment permission to do.  If you really want to "go green" you need to sell your boat (made from petroleum), your paddle, your shuttle rig and every other luxury item that the capitalistic system has afforded you to own.  Then wander into the woods, join a tribe, widdle a stick house and hope the neighboring tribe doesn get the upper hand and steal it.  Oh, and dont forget to turn off your rationality and logic because if you attempt to figure out how to improve your existence you'll get right back to where you started.....living in a capitalistic society with a boat and a paddle a shuttle rig and gas money.  That sounds F-in terrible.

I know, complete sentences and all!

Look, I got an award letter from PSE for being so conservation minded. Poor Dave Moroles has to wear a down jacket, hat and a down sleeping bag to keep warm though....