Go Green, Save Green with Tax Incentives!

Here's an easy-to-understand summary of the assorted federal and state energy-related tax incentives featured in Carolina Country's January 2010 edition, page 10.

Please note that these tax credits and incentives are for your primary residence only. It's always smart to check with your tax advisor to verify everything before you spend a lot of money.

Top 20 Eco Stories of 2009

Thought you might be interested in Earth911's list of the Top 20 Environmental Stories of 2009. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah to our Christian and Jewish friends, and to everyone for a great 2010!

Verdict in: CFLs do impact less than Incandescent bulbs

One of my big hang ups with environmentalism is that the 'cure' may in fact, be worse than the disease. By this I mean, using the recent "Cash For Clunkers" program as an example, we smashed up tons of servicable cars and replaced them in many cases with only marginally more efficient cars. End result: the energy and materials used to build and ship the new cars ends up being environmentally worse than the original clunkers (not to mention worse on the taxpayer's wallet as well). That's why I am pleased to report that the compact flourescent bulbs do, in fact, turn out to be better than the incandescent bulbs. However, there is still that pesky disposal and breakage problem with the mercury in the CFLs.

Carolina Country article

Check out my latest article on reusable bags featured in Carolina Country, read by over 650,000 folks each month. So often people assume energy companies don't care about our environment. Not so Carolina Country, a magazine published by the electric cooperatives in North Carolina. This common sense magazine also uses common sense when it comes to taking care of our planet.

New Blog!

We are upgrading our blog...starting today, we will be using Blogger.com to run our blog. This will make it easier for you to find info on previous posts since the software categorizes posts for quick lookup on topics of interest. To scroll through our previous posts, please click here. Thanks!