The Green Buck Stops Here

Namaste Solar Electric and owner Blake Jones are superb examples of how to make money and grow the local economy by going green. This employee-owned solar electric company in Boulder, CO has grown from three owner-employees to 45 since it’s beginning four years ago. The company is generous to its’ employees and business is booming.

Here’s a great article on the company which includes an interview with owner, Blake Jones:

The Daily Green

You can also check out the company’s web site:

Namaste Solar Electric

This is where you can add your own ideas about going green and saving and/or making money. Just add them to the comment section. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Oil tycoon, T. Boone Pickens, Jr., is investing $10 billion in wind power. When his project is finished in about four years, he will have the world’s largest wind farm that will produce enough electricity to power 1 million homes.

He hasn’t converted for the sake of the environment, he’s doing it to make money and that’s o.k. He knows that oil is a finite resource and trying to get enough oil to meet our demands is putting our national security at risk.

My kudos go to him, not only for his project but because he is showing by example that it just makes good business sense to use clean, renewable energy. When someone as accomplished as T. Boone Pickens talks, people listen.

Here are a couple of links that you might find interesting.

PickensPlan: The Plan

http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/14/windpower.energy

I know WalMart has had it’s problems and many people have refused to shop there. There is one big thing they have done right. They have made great strides in going green. Among other things they have installed solar panels on many of their stores, are providing more organic produce and have notified their suppliers that they will not accept products that are “over packaged.” I’m not going to guess or judge their motives but kudos to them. The world’s largest retailer has proven that going green can save money.