[Greenbuilding] Debunking Energy Efficency

[Mary Bull - Greenwood Earth Alliance]

I think you'd better read the Monbiot book, Rob, before you speak of its
irrelevance--you are definitely getting a false impression of the gist of
that book. The K-B Postulate is not key to M's proposals to address global
warming--he assumes it is correct for the worst case scenario, but realizes
it may not be.

Mary Bull, Co-director
Greenwood Earth Alliance, Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick, San Francisco, CA 94117 http://www.gapsucks.org
Chalice Farm and Sustainable Living Center, 748 Montgomery Rd, Sebastopol CA
95472
415-731-7924 - 415-509-1188 chalicenew at earthlink.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Tom" <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca>
To: "GB REPP" <GREENBUILDING at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Debunking Energy Efficency


> There appears to be a school of thought which believes that being Green or
> energy efficient is a matter of choosing this or that gizmo or product and
> by acquiring  the right gizmo or product, one earns Green virtuousness by
> default.
>
> Never mind that the product or gizmo could and/or should really have been
> eliminated from the project in the first place.  ie If I buy an SUV with a
> hybrid engine in it, then I can feel good about making a single purpose
> trip driving to the mall to buy a cup of coffee at the drive-thru.
>
> If one subscribes to the above approach to being Green, then "yes" I would
> agree that Monbiot et al might have a point.
>
> There is also a school of thought that approaches being Green or energy
> efficient as a strategy and the goal of that strategy is to meet or exceed
> a performance target that in the end substantially reduces overall
> environmental impacts in a manner that can be quantified as an improvement
> over the norm. If one subscribes to the latter then Monbiot has no
> relevance IMO.
>
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> <A r c h i L o g i c   at  c h a f f y a h o o   dot   c a >
> winnow the chaff from my edress in your reply
>
>
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