She also had a recent episode about "The house of the future" and barely mentioned ANYTHING about efficiency or electricity.

"My wife says that complaining about the obviously unintentionally uninformed first sentence in this O piece will make me seem like a curmudgeon. Seem? I told her she needs to read my blog more. Oh, snap!"

Thanks a lot, Joe... anyone have a good idea for cleaning coffee out of my keyboard? :)

You pretty much hit this target.  (How could you miss?  Just kidding, O-  

Ditto to Pango's biking endorsement.  Biking is so good on so many levels.  It brightens your day far better than some minutes on a treadmill ever could.  And frees the spirit as well as the body to experience the natural environment of the moment and its weather, birds, and the community.  Bonus: good for the planet and one's personal carbon footprint.

Seriously, getting "out of the box" as the article's editors were aspiring, requires 1.) recognizing the box or cage that one is in, and 2.) releasing the catches thereon.

Then just turn the pedal cranks, and roll... [Grin]

Moving toward sustainability with hopefulness, one revolution at a time.

"...that will not destroy effective carbon sinks, dynamite, bulldoze, poison, dehydrate and pave fragile functioning ecosystems, and re-entrench Big Energy monopolies in an era of ubiquitous sun and wind which is far better sited at point of use" but just ran out of breath because she was jogging?  

after all, the truth is quite a mouthful.  better to go with the disingenuous soundbytes about how "renewable" a power plant, hundreds of miles away, that permanently destroys thousands of acres of highly effective carbon sink, emits TONS of GHGs, slaughters all the wildlife in the region and completely depletes groundwater sources, while often burning natural gas is, eh?  i mean what's not "renewable" about that?  it's genius, alright, but greenwasher-marketing genius, not "clean energy" genius.

truth hurts, folks.  if we don't close the gap between consumption and generation on location, then we will just be continuing to careen down the slippery slope where all the costs of our power consumption are externalized onto ratepayers, taxpayers and especially the planet (both in GHG increases and ecosystem decimation), while Big Energy pockets the profits.  this is the model that made the Fossil Fuel Robber Barons so rich, and Industrial Wind and Solar are trying to do the same thing.

so will we behave like enlightened citizens or like Stockholm Syndrome patients, opening another vein for Big Energy?

the greenest energy is that which you needn't ever produce.