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Feedback ForumNOW wants to hear from you! Send us your opinions, reactions and ideas about "Save Energy, Money and the Planet."Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: Chuck Hand Comment: The past 2 shows were 2 of the best of the season. I'm a long time fan of Now, but frankly, I have been a little disappointed in the pieces earlier this year. Please keep up the improved programing. Poster: christine ziemnik Comment: My 90 yr. old mother and I love your show. We wish it were an hr. Poster: Jo Kurtz Comment: Where do I sign up? An excellent program and inspirational. Think of using tax dollars for refurbishing America's cities and turning them green! In fact, what about helping the economy by starting with the schools in this country? Think of the people put to work! Think of the education that could go on with updated surroundings! This is a win-win situation. On a side note, I'm tired of seeing the oil companies in the top ten profit makers every year. Poster: M. McDonald Comment: Dear NOW program staffers, Great program on NOW last Friday, March 28, 2008. I was delighted to see the American Solar Energy Society's Jobs Study featured on the program. I know first hand the monetary and time commitment the Society invested to pull it together this report for their national conference in 2007 in Cleveland where retooling the rust belt for jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy, especially in Ohio, was the focus. My only regret is that there was no attribution to ASES nor mention in your related links on the NOW web site to encourage interested viewers obtain a copy of the (free) report. I am an ASES Board Member and clearly have an interest in promoting the Society and wider recognition of the jobs study. However, attribution and citing sources is always good journalism no matter what the interest. Here is a link to the full study, a free downloadable PDF, in the event that it can be added to your site: www.ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf. Many thanks! Sincerely, Margot McDonald, AIA, LEED-AP Professor. Architecture Dept., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Chair, SOLAR 2008 and ASES Board Member Chair, USGBC Formal Education Committee Host Campus Chair, UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference 2008 Poster: Marilyn Flint Comment: This was very inspiring. I would like to find out how to replicate this program in my town of Bellingham, Washington. Do you have any contact information regarding how to do this? Poster: Tim Miller Comment: Please follow up with more of these types of shows. example would be a show that explains the tax insentatives for greening up homes ....Thanks Poster: Steve Whitney Comment: The state of Maryland just put green legislation on hold because protecting the environment appears to threaten too many jobs in Baltimore. Thanks for this important coverage of Yankee ingenuity in Massachusetts. Other urban areas need to consider this very seriously. Another great broadcast from NOW. Poster: Grady Lee Howard Comment: Not only is commerce in bundled mortgages affecting investors worldwide but there are also bubbles of other varieties contributing to a recession or depression. Imbalance of trade means undermining the dollar, and the carry trade (international currency exchange) also contributes to instability and inflation. The global financial environment is beyond the purview of any single state and is virtually unregulated. Again we witness how runaway capitalism strangles itself.Maybe we will learn how to head things off and protect honest trading after we recover from this debacle. Poster: Bob Maginnis Comment: Thank you for the show about energy efficiency and thanks to the Cambridge Energy Alliance for showing the way. Efficiency isn't sexy, like they said on the program, but it is here and now effective rather than us wishing for a future invention in energy production. If we spent 10% of the US defense budget on efficiency, we wouldn't worry so much about where our next barrel of oil is coming from. Poster: c. Sullivan Comment: Did Ms. Magavi sell her home yet? what an intesting idea. I am curious about how much more was the up front cost to green the home and what is the overall return on her investment. Thanks and great work. Poster: Richard Mousel Comment: Recycle Heat, in your talks about saving energy, has the subject of recycling heat ever come up? With the laundry, could they work with other high enery users like Greenhouses, and share the savings. So many businesses waste used heat. Refineries often have huge flames shooting from their stacks, can't they install boilers and donate or sell the heat to schools? The local sewage plant burns the methane, they too should install boilers and use heat exchangers. Poster: June R Stratton Comment: The show tonight was so inspiring and intriguing. I plan to move back to TN soon and plan to become involved in any reliable group involve in saving energy, money, and the planet. Thank you again for another excellent program. Poster: Ciarrai Comment: What a great show you have, David. Tonight's show on energy conservation was very fine. Keep up the good work. Poster: johanna Comment: I very much liked today's show on greening the home. Good information and so good to hear how well Cambridge, Mass. is doing with greening the city! We need to see more programs like this on a regular basis. Poster: Ken Hall Comment: I am watching the NOW program concerning saving the Earth by Greening a laundromat. The assumption that the new washers will be paid for by electricity and water savings within approximately 7 years ignores the likelihood that the machines will not last 7 years in a commercial application and that they will incur maintenance costs as well. Do not get me wrong I am very much in favor of saving the Earth but lets address the real problem too damn many humans coupled with an idiotic economic philosophy of ever increasing production and consumption. In fact your program trumpeted the creation of new business opportunities in greening the Earth as good deal. Fewer humans coupled with a reasonable sustainable economic philosophy; not every human can become a multi millionaire and they damn well do not need to. Poster: Richard Toole Comment: I love your show and try to watch every week. This week's show about Cambridge's energy project was inspiring and hopeful and educational. I know we need your investigative stories but it is refreshing to know we can do something to help solve a problem. Keep up the good work! |
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