Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: innovative stuff

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, MartyR707 [at] aol.com MartyR707 [at] aol.com wrote:

> The expert on this is Tom Lent at Berkeley Coho - I don't know if he has a 
> connection to this list?
>
 
Tom used to be a cohousing-L subscriber.  
I'd encourage him to at least browse cohousing-L messages ocassionally
via the web archives at:
  http://csf.Colorado.EDU/cohousing/      

In a message dated Wed, 2 Feb 2000 he wrote:

> Due to a problem at Mindspring, I seem to no longer be able to receive
> mail at the "tlent [at] econet.org" address. 

> Please check your address books and change my address to "tlent [at] igc.org"
> if you have been using the "econet" address. 

> Tom
>| Tom Lent - Energy & Environmental Consulting                |
>|            2220-F Sacramento Street, Berkeley, CA 94702-1907|
>|            510-845-5600  510-549-3749(fax)  <tlent [at] igc.org> |


Also On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, MartyR707 [at] aol.com MartyR707 [at] aol.com wrote:

> It really seems a crime that it costs more to do things the
> environmental way.
> 

Well, it seems like good public policy would try to minimize the extra
cost. 

An example comes to mind: The proposal that I heard Ralph Nader gave the
other day when he was here for an enthusiastic rally of 350 - 400 people.  
I dont remember the specific application (outdoor lighting? remote
facilities? ) but having government use (or subsidy use) of photovoltaics
despite the extra cost over doing it other ways (and thus not meeting
"rational" economic sense at the present time) but which would increase
demand / production scale enough bring the cost / price down.

Fred

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