I don’t know if it’s better to thank Al Gore for his focus on the planet or if we’ve really come to a place in time where people are starting to “get it” and becoming more environmentally friendly is starting to truly kick in with the American public. For those folks that didn’t have an environmentally green thumb before there are cities around the country that are providing incentives to get their citizens to consider their imprint on the planet, or as some people like to call it, their carbon footprint.
Washington has its own set of incentives which having just purchased a different home for myself I have recently been getting plugs for their programs which include savings on energy efficient items such as siding, furnaces, windows and more.
If you’ve decided that 2008 is the year that you’ll start implementing eco-friendly and environmentally-friendly changes to your home, you are in good company. Heck, even NYC has changed the crystal ball that is dropped on New Years to be an LED (light emitting diode) version instead of the incandescent form of the past (the last one was a combo of incandescent and flourescent).
Happy New Year to all!
