How Investors Are Surviving and Thriving in the Era of Climate Change
Bruce Wilson LEED AP certified building contractor in environmentally sustainable renovation, restoration and new construction, offers this:
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Thanks, Bruce. My (modest) portfolio of equities are in a “non-extractive” ETF. Nothing that takes anything out of the ground, and, obviously, no tobacco, war machines, etc.
Not an architect. Just an above average contractor
Bruce,
Thank you for that refreshingly honest clarification 🙂
Where do you work out of an have you considered recycling energy that is normally wasted? If not you should consider it. You can reduce the carbon footprint of a building by simply recovering this wasted energy.
I represent a woman/veteran owned company which makes these devices.
If you are interested let me know and I can provide you with more information. Don’t miss an opportunity to upsell these products to your customers and provide them with something that will save them energy for probably as long as they live.
Hi Brian,
I may be wrong,(and please forgive me if I am) but from your description, I suspect you may be involved in a product that recovers heat from waste hot water or refrigerated condenser coils ?
Both of these relatively low tech, long established, solutions are not only viable, but very underrated and overlooked in waste heat recovery. Both products should be a compulsory part of construction codes.
Hi Marco,
You are correct and I very much agree. It is astonishing to me how difficult it is to convince people and organizations to simply stop throwing perfectly good energy right down the drain.
I believe in Canada these products are required in new construction but I have not found confirmation of this yet. I do know they sell a lot more of these things in Canada then they do here.
They are low tech, not rocket science, have no moving parts, require no energy, require no maintenance and last an extremely long time. It is a really crappy business model but a very excellent product that should be used everywhere.
I installed mine in 2005 and made it operational in 2007 due to a series of changes and renovations I was undergoing anyway. Of all the things I have done to my house, and I have done quite a few, this is easily the simplest and most effective change I have made and something almost anyone can do with relative ease.
Anyway, the company name is Swing Green https://swing-green.com/
Hi Brian,
Well said!
Craig,
“My (modest) portfolio of equities are in an “non-extractive” ETF. Nothing that takes anything out of the ground”.
Do you imagine Solar and Wind is manufactured with magical ingredients, grown on small bushes, produced in hand hewn stone and timber factories by elves and transported by Amish transport on unpaved roads ?
When you, (or God forbid such an occasion should arise) your mother, wife or Children need life saving medical emergency attention, will you wait for a horse drawn ambulance to take them to the nearest Leech doctor?
Obviously not! No, like most of the self-righteous, affluent, Californian elite, you will smugly enjoy all the benefits provided by the extraction industries, while remaining sanctimonious and superior to those who toil to keep your hypocritical lifestyle functioning.