[videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Watkins
I applaud greentime and anything similar. Computers, video cameras the net are not particularily green or sustainable. So they are part fo the problem, but they have a place in helping massively with sustainability etc, if they can be used to eliminate even more wasteful uses of fossil fuels.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Steve, The fever pitch, in a lot of ways, is already here, and it has been for a while. Plenty of so-called green products are coopting the marketing of greenness for the purpose of selling but are not green in and of themselves. I actually think things have gotten better as people are starting

[videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Watkins
Well I wasnt meaning to suggest that solar panels actually fail the equation I gave them, jsut that we always need to probe a little deeper to make sure the solutions arent more costly to the world than the original problem. Its a time when enthusiasm is needed to stir the masses into action,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Green Vlogging?

2007-03-22 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
You might find it interesting to note that a lot of the 1970s green enthusiasm died with the election of Reagan, who had, in his first two years, removed all subsidies for projects focused on developing renewables...anyway, a link that's germane to much of your response: