{"id":2261,"date":"2018-03-05T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:59:27","slug":"groovey-green-power-slashes-across-wisonsins-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/groovey-green-power-slashes-across-wisonsins-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Groovey Green Power Slashes Across Wisonsin&#8217;s Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent letter to the Exec Dir of RENEW Wisconsin, a wind &amp; solar advocacy group that seems to have lost its way in what it means to be, ahem, &#8216;renewable&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Huebner,<\/p>\n<p>Some of us have been trying to explain this to your organization for decades: <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/isthmus.com\/news\/cover-story\/argument-against-building-giant-transmission-lines\/\">http:\/\/isthmus.com\/news\/cover-story\/argument-against-building-giant-transmission-lines\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RENEW is on the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us looking to a more sustainable future are conserving to keep it local and keeping it local to conserve. For example, we live in a 2-unit, and we pay all utilities. Few landlords would take this risk. But it makes investment sense, and the return is a lot better than a bank account and a lot more secure than the stock market. It is a very unusual alignment of interest in keeping consumption low.<\/p>\n<p>Our tenants love the idea that they are paying in to a green house and they join in the effort. No &#8216;split incentives&#8217; with our property.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot: Each household uses less than 18% the state average for electricity, 40% for gas. Yes, you read it right, 18% OF the state average (i. e., not 18% less). Yet, there are no hairshirts in our household. Of that tiny electric consumption amount, 100% is supplied by local rooftops via the Solar Legacy Coop. It can be done. It just requires looking to the future, not the 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrett<\/p>\n<p>Madison, WI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RENEW Wisconsin is not so renewably minded given the power lines they want to slash across our beautiful landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[848,1435,1432,1433,825,1436,1434,212],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conservation","tag-green-energy","tag-landscape","tag-power-lines","tag-renew","tag-solar-legacy-cooperative","tag-transmission-lines","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}