I’ve always been puzzled why fans of conservation (of energy, water, natural resources, etc.) don’t emphasize money saving more. It’s probably because conservation often requires an initial monetary outlay, and we humans don’t do well calculating long-term savings vs. short-term expense.
But here’s a great example, from this story in the Burlington Free-Press: IBM’s semiconductor plant [...]

As Earle Rich predicted in a comment to my earlier post about a surprising increase in household energy use, our electric fence charger proves not to be an energy hog, even when it powers both the electric fence around the beehive (keeping out the bears) and the sheep fence. The Kill-a-Watt  meter shows that it [...]

The state’s new Climate Change Action Plan (my analysis is here) is enthusiastic about alternative energy - but switching from fossil fuels is expensive, although calculations of cost are complicated, as this excellent N.Y. Times article notes (power storage is part of the solar/wind cost, and how do you calculate the environmental impact of coal?)
Which [...]