> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think having an environmental policy is a lot less important than > you feel it is. Our resource impact is already minimal; we use a bit > of electricity and not much else.
More than half of the economy's energy usage comes from business, not individuals. Our usage may be small now, but it's still a part of an economy that in aggregate has a huge environmental impact. We should take responsibility for our part, small though it may be on an individual level. And the bigger we get the more electricity we will use, as well as electronics and other products of business. If it's small, all the more reason it should be painless to implement, other than convincing people that we should do it. > I suspect that you are also incorrect about it becoming more difficult > to implement as the number of members increases. I think it would be > easier because the amount each person had to pay would begin to > approach zero. It has already approached zero. In fact it is zero right now and only $0.04 per month per person if we offset our electricity, once I stop paying for it (after a year). This suggests that it's only the inertia from inaction, diversity of opinions, and lack of consensus that prevents us from implementing an environmental policy, something that my experience in organization suggests will not get easier later. In any event, I expect that the board will be setting this to rest for the near future one way or the other by this weekend in a way that I hope everyone can be satisfied with. -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
