This statement is at the root of what most professionals want to do with their lives. And yet, the media seems focused on convincing us that others will do this for us if we will just pay for them to do so. Take a look at this article on energy impacts we can all make in our homes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/climate/tax-breaks-inflation-reduction-act.html
Nowhere do you see the easiest one that everyone can do whether they rent or own their home: adjust the thermostat. Every degree can change energy used by heating or air conditioning by about 8% … one degree makes a huge difference. The online energy calculators we developed are just about everywhere and there is no mention of using them. These calculators will provide conservative and accurate predictions of savings for all ideas in the home and rank them as to financial impacts.
Try it for yourself: https://account.tecoenergy.com/EnergyAudit/Estimated
Nope, what you have is yet another article implying that you should invest in solar for your roof and be happy that our government will solve the long-term climate challenges by strokes of their pens and funding the winners that make this possible.
One has only to look at the legacy of this thought for the past four decades to prove this idea is faulty. The government has always backed the wrong horse and then declared themselves brilliant when the unbanned what they banned in the past or quietly bankrupted the firms they backed.
We all want a better world for ourselves and our children. We all know we should eat less processed food, exercise, get a good night’s sleep, and love one another along the way.
Yet, we are all getting lazier and lazier as time goes on in our quest for convenience. Amazon is striving for same day deliveries and that is simply amazing. Yet, my garbage is now consists almost totally of their packaging.
My wife Susan came up with a brilliant idea … why not leave the packaging from the previous delivery on our porch so they can pick it up and reuse or recycle it. After all, those nice people delivering them are already walking to our front door and returning to their trucks empty-handed.
Isn’t that a brilliant way to make a difference? Isn’t it a blinding flash of the obvious? If somebody out there can get Amazon’s attention and suggest this, please do.
Oh, and by the way, Amazon just introduced a fund to focus on recycling. You can see that here by searching for that topic on GreenBiz
Physician … heal thyself!