Guest Blogging at 2GreenEnergy: Keepin’ It Real
There are currently 455 registered guest bloggers at 2GreenEnergy, perhaps 40 or so of whom are currently active. Though I’m sure I’m wrong, I imagine them to be hip, relaxed young people, sitting on beaches, perhaps sipping cool beverages, making ends meet by writing posts that contain links to their clients’ commercial websites.
In the off chance that anyone’s interested in our selection process, it begins when someone submits a request to join our merry band, and I ask them for their ideas. Normally, I’m fine with any concept that has anything even remotely to do with environmentalism and whose link goes to some legitimate and vaguely relevant site, but today, for some reason, I had a different response to one Tanya Meyer, who wrote:
Hi Craig, Hope you are well. My idea for the guest post is “How to choose an energy efficient garage door.” Please let me know your thoughts.
to which I replied:
Tanya: Thanks.
1) Please read that aloud to yourself and see if it sounds right.
2) The average annual energy consumption of an electric garage door opener costs its user: 500 Watts / 1000 W/KW * 0.5 minutes/day * 365 days/year / 60 minutes/hour * $0.11/KWh = ~$0.17/year. Are you suggesting that reducing this expense is of significant interest to our readers?
Craig,
I don’t mean this too sound patronizing or demeaning toward the good intentions of these enthusiastic contributors, but most of these folk and their contributions are either simple advertisements for some dubious product or twee admonitions containing cliched observations about the bleeding obvious.
Nostalgically, they remind me of those contributors to the Readers Digest Magazine, copies of which always seemed to populate waiting rooms.