More Green BS From Friedman

[Pete Incaviglia]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

Those lighbulbs suck, by the way.

I'm just sayin'.

Depends on what they're be used for. We've got a mix of CFL and LED lights. You'd never know unless you looked at the bulbs, instead of the light produced.

I have CFL in my small bathroom. And in my chandelier. They take FOREVER to brighten. If I wanted light to gradually come on, I'd use the sun.

The LED, they're in my little light over the kitchener sink, they aren't bad.

 

[Rough Mix]

I think Boom raises a valid point. Maybe this has been linked here before, but others wonder the same thing

"Where does a man who needs his own offshore drilling platform just to keep the east wing of his house heated get the balls to write a book chiding America for driving energy inefficient automobiles? Where does a guy whose family bulldozed 2.1 million square feet of pristine Hawaiian wilderness to put a Gap, an Old Navy, a Sears, an Abercrombie and even a mother****ing Foot Locker in paradise get off preaching to the rest of us about the need for a “Green Revolution”? Well, he’ll explain it all to you in 438 crisply written pages for just $27.95, $30.95 if you have the misfortune to be Canadian."

http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html

Maybe he has taken steps to make his estate environmentally friendly. I don't know. But like the steps Al Gore took, it wouldn't hurt him to make some of it public. Frankly, I'd be interested to know what he has done.

By the way, what has happened to General Growth Properties has been stunning

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/general-growth-properties-files-for-bankruptcy/?ref=global-home