Hey It CAN Cool Off - Somewhat
Well, well for the first time in over a week the electric company is not happy with me. Why you ask? Because today I did not have to have the air conditioner on all day.
Running the silly thing tends to offset all the good that switching to compact flourescent bulbs was doing.
Speaking of things "green" okay I did watch (or at least have on) the Live Earth concert (on Bravo) and it was pretty good. I must admit I have my doubts about how carbon neurtal they could possibly be with all the celebs having to travel to get to the various locations. Supposedly they were going to announce after the concert what the output ended up being but I haven't seen "boo" on that in the press so either the press no longer cares (gasp!) or they didn't do that well and they are still trying to figure out how to spin it.
I did take Earthlab's little carbon test to see how I stacked up and as expected I am well below average for the normal American. The crappy part was for electric and natural gas they only ask you the amount of your monthly bills. Well with rates all over the place how the hell does that tell them anything? Plus I am on budget pay for both of those so there's no way they were getting an accurate reading. So my numbers are probably even lower than what I did end up scoring.
The best news of the day though is the cooler temp. We did not get the rain they were calling for damn it all but at least it has cooled off some and I can breathe a bit better. Damned annoying thing breathing, you have to do it no matter what.
Running the silly thing tends to offset all the good that switching to compact flourescent bulbs was doing.
Speaking of things "green" okay I did watch (or at least have on) the Live Earth concert (on Bravo) and it was pretty good. I must admit I have my doubts about how carbon neurtal they could possibly be with all the celebs having to travel to get to the various locations. Supposedly they were going to announce after the concert what the output ended up being but I haven't seen "boo" on that in the press so either the press no longer cares (gasp!) or they didn't do that well and they are still trying to figure out how to spin it.
I did take Earthlab's little carbon test to see how I stacked up and as expected I am well below average for the normal American. The crappy part was for electric and natural gas they only ask you the amount of your monthly bills. Well with rates all over the place how the hell does that tell them anything? Plus I am on budget pay for both of those so there's no way they were getting an accurate reading. So my numbers are probably even lower than what I did end up scoring.
The best news of the day though is the cooler temp. We did not get the rain they were calling for damn it all but at least it has cooled off some and I can breathe a bit better. Damned annoying thing breathing, you have to do it no matter what.
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