Weatherization Department
The Friday Report Friday November 29,1996
FromWright Energy's
Weatherization Network Since 1984
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Update Scheduled for 11/29/96
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National Directory of HERS Providers on Wright Energy
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Thanks to Cynthia Gardstien sending us the 1st and Current directory of
HERS providers. We have installed the entire list onto the Wright Energy
website in a State by State alphabetical order with links to each State.
( I assume this is OK as public information needing to be disseminated.)
Although all States are not represented in the current listing we expect
new providers to be added fast.
Note one of my new email addresses above. we have also acquired the Domain
Names, energyconservation.com, weatherstrip.com, weatherizer.com, airxchange.com,
energyefficient.com plus a few more in the genre. Which means of course
that we have some exciting plans for the near future so please stay tuned.
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda
The Empire Strikes Back Slow Down and Save the World _____________
By DONELLA H. MEADOWSfrom the LA times.
No matter how hard we work, there is more to do. Go more slowly, do less
harm, give yourself and others a break.
Those of us who think the world needs saving--from environmental destruction,
rapacious greed, decaying morals, drugs, crime, racism, whatever--keep very
busy crusading for our favorite remedies. School vouchers. Carbon taxes.
Campaign reform. The Endangered Species Act. A lower capital gains tax.
Strong regulation. No regulation.
You know. That long list of mutually inconsistent
Holy Grails with which we like to hit each other over the head.
There's one solution to the world's problems,
however, that I never hear the frenzied activists suggest. Slowing down.
Yes, that's what I said. Slowing down. Slowing down could be the single
most effective solution to the particular save-the-world struggle I immerse
myself in--the struggle for sustainability, for living harmoniously and
well within the limits and laws of the Earth.
Suppose we weren't in such a hurry. We could
take time to walk instead of drive, to sail instead of fly. To clean up
our messes. To discuss our plans throughout the whole community before we
send in bulldozers to make irreversible changes. To figure out how many
fish the
ocean can produce before boats war with other boats for whatever fish are
left.
Suppose we went at a slow enough pace not
only to smell the
flowers, but also to feel our bodies, play with children, look openly without
agenda or timetable into the faces of loved ones. Suppose we stopped gulping
fast food and started savoring slow food, grown, cooked, served and eaten
with care. Suppose we took time each day to sit in silence.
I think that if we did those things, the world
wouldn't need much saving.
We could cut our energy and material use drastically,
because we would get the full good out of what we use.
We wouldn't have to buy so many things to
save time. (Have you ever wondered, with all our time-saving paraphernalia,
what happens to the time we save?)
We wouldn't make so many mistakes. We could
listen more and hurt each other less. Maybe we could even take time to reason
through our favorite solutions, test them and learn what their actual effects
are.
Said Thomas Merton, who spent his time in
a Trappist monastery: "There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence
to which the idealist . . . most easily succumbs: activism and overwork.
. . . To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting
concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many
people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys the
fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom
which makes work fruitful."
Donella H. Meadows Is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth
College
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