Asking Our Power Utilities To Take the Plunge into Smart Grid
Here’s a follow-on to my post about rethinking our relationships with our power utilities. According to my friends at the SmartGridNews, it appears that the State of Massachusetts may be in the process of doing exactly that.
It wasn’t that long ago that government officials needed to have the benefits of smart grid explained to them. Now some of these very same people are mandating that the utilities that serve their citizens deploy technology like smart meters, while providing the utilities a path to be compensated accordingly. That’s a positive development, to be sure.
Here’s an article that summarizes the 
Nearly every kind of human activity raises the concentration of carbon dioxide and other global warming agents in the atmosphere. The greater the presence of these substances in the air, the more of the sun’s heat that is trapped close to the surface. A steadily warmer Earth can have harmful effects on the health of the planet and on human health. 
Here’s a Scientific American article on the 
As part of an ongoing conversation on the 
Over the recent years governments and environment conserving agencies have tried to emphasize the need to recycle used material. The automobile industry has not been left behind as recycle of vehicles and vehicle parts has far reaching environmental benefits. Recycled material if in good condition is of good quality and comes at a lower cost. 
Even the humble act of recycling has become a global business. According to a report by the London based newspaper The Guardian, when a Chinese made television is imported into the United Kingdom, a UK company then sells the empty box and packaging materials back to China, where they’re recycled and made into new boxes and packaging materials. 
Like most people, there are a number of things I do with ridiculous consistency throughout the holiday season. For me, it starts Thanksgiving Day, when I wake up and make a few calls to thank the people who made great personal sacrifices to ensure that I turned out to be a half-decent human being. And then, in mid-December, I write three checks to causes I believe to be supremely worth-while. 
