{"id":756,"date":"2005-04-18T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/trying-to-live-green\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T19:27:54","slug":"trying-to-live-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/trying-to-live-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Live Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in the previous post that I&#8217;ll be heading down to the fair grounds for this year&#8217;s Living Green Expo.<\/p>\n<p>This is something I think about a fair amount&#8230; We all drive cars, use energy, do wasteful things, throw away recyclebles, eat cow, etc. There are things you could do&#8230; like spend, oh, about $25,000 to install solar panels on your house, sell your car and buy the patent for that stair stepper bike that dude in downtown Minneapolis rides around, get a team of hamsters to generate electricity at your house, etc. But that&#8217;s not terribly feasible. And it&#8217;s not like you can go and install a huge wind turbine in your back yard either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s something you can do (if you are served by Xcel Energy in Colorado, New Mexico or Minnesota):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcelenergy.com\/XLWEB\/CDA\/0,3080,1-1-2_735_11612-3320-5_406_667-0,00.html\">Go to this page at Xcel Energy about Windsource<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call them up, they will tell you how many blocks you use, and then you can buy the equivalent amount of wind energy.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some fine print there, you aren&#8217;t insuring that the electricity that comes to your house was wind-generated, but what you&#8217;re doing is basically adding more wind-energy to Xcel&#8217;s overall pool.<\/p>\n<p>You can cover up-to your average electricity bill, so I bought 5 blocks, which was an extra $10 a month.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little something you can do, and it won&#8217;t break the bank either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in the previous post that I&#8217;ll be heading down to the fair grounds for this year&#8217;s Living Green Expo. This is something I think about a fair amount&#8230; We all drive cars, use energy, do wasteful things, throw away recyclebles, eat cow, etc. There are things you could do&#8230; like spend, oh, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}