Comments on: Europe All the Time, New York When It Needs To http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Future of Energy - Save Twenty Percent | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/comment-page-1/#comment-64626 Future of Energy - Save Twenty Percent | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:42:22 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/#comment-64626 [...] This all came back to me yesterday. I am in Brazil to deliver a speech to the top executives of a company whose annual management meeting theme is “Leading the Future”. When I checked into the upscale, business hotel here in Joinville, in the Santa Catarina state, I went through a sequence that reminded me once again how energy wasteful the U.S. is. The elevator would not operate unless I inserted my room key card into a slot. As an American I thought this was a good security feature. Then, when I got off at my floor the hallway was completely dark. With mild trepidation I stepped out and the lights went on due to a motion sensor. I proceeded to head down a dark corridor and, every 20 feet or so the lights went on as the sensors tracked my progress to my room. This of course is a feature widely in use in Europe, as I have written here. [...] [...] This all came back to me yesterday. I am in Brazil to deliver a speech to the top executives of a company whose annual management meeting theme is “Leading the Future”. When I checked into the upscale, business hotel here in Joinville, in the Santa Catarina state, I went through a sequence that reminded me once again how energy wasteful the U.S. is. The elevator would not operate unless I inserted my room key card into a slot. As an American I thought this was a good security feature. Then, when I got off at my floor the hallway was completely dark. With mild trepidation I stepped out and the lights went on due to a motion sensor. I proceeded to head down a dark corridor and, every 20 feet or so the lights went on as the sensors tracked my progress to my room. This of course is a feature widely in use in Europe, as I have written here. [...]

]]> By: Liberale Stimme Online : Zusammenfassung: Carnival of German-American Relations http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Liberale Stimme Online : Zusammenfassung: Carnival of German-American Relations Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:53:19 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/#comment-409 [...] David Houle von Evolution Shift trägt ebenfalls zwei Artikel bei. In “Europe All the Time, New York When It Needs To” (E) stellt er fest, dass auch Amerikaner bereit sind, Energie zu sparen und sich umweltfreundlich zu verhalten, wenn man ihnen die Notwendigkeit klar macht. „Freedom is just another name for……….Berlin” (E), sein zweiter Beitrag, schildert seine Empfindungen als Amerikaner, der diese geschichtsträchtige Stadt besichtigt. [...] [...] David Houle von Evolution Shift trägt ebenfalls zwei Artikel bei. In “Europe All the Time, New York When It Needs To” (E) stellt er fest, dass auch Amerikaner bereit sind, Energie zu sparen und sich umweltfreundlich zu verhalten, wenn man ihnen die Notwendigkeit klar macht. „Freedom is just another name for……….Berlin” (E), sein zweiter Beitrag, schildert seine Empfindungen als Amerikaner, der diese geschichtsträchtige Stadt besichtigt. [...]

]]> By: Cale http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Cale Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:39:19 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/#comment-329 Victoria, let stay on the subject....social med is a totally different area than energy efficiency...also (I lived in Germany 12 years) biking in a (on avg.) far milder climate is easier...can you imagine bike on a daily basis (even if you live w/in 5miles)to work in Atlanta in the summer??? Come on! Also (as someone else noted) they have far better public trans...and I believe we neeed better, but that does not mean folks will use it...what would be easier (in my opinion) would be to heavily subsidise/give incentives for GM, FORD etc to build more fuel efficient cars and give some more incentives to the buyer after a couple of yrs they will look at anything (car wise) that get less than (let's say on the concervative side) 25mpg as wasteful and maybe less than 20 mpg for a truck (not the ones that contractors etc use-but the regular "commuter") as wastefull...what irritates "The livin'HELL" out of me is both the Rep and the Dem. not listening and going for the ABSOLUTES! I love trees etc but I don't want a 60mpg car that won't hold ,y wife and 2 kids and 10 days worth of stuff on our way to DISNEY! But a gradual (5-10 yr) mandatory increase in MPG now that should be possible...it is not ridding a bike in 100 degree weather to work (and I can't I'm in sales wearing a suite...) but a graduall expansion of rail and subway systems that are present so more people can use them cause when the line only goes out about 20 miles from the center of the city (ATL example) I still have to get in the car and drive a minimum of 25 miles in order to get to the first station in order to use it...hell by then I'll just use the car..and if it is not clean, secure and have trains running at good intervals then again you'll loose riders----i.e. CUSTOMER SERVICE meaning you can't have the government have total controll over it ...it will fail! PS we are not behind in technology we invented the cat converter;) in the 70s; euros did not make them manditory early 90s!!!!! We invented the VCR (we actually just did not use business sense and believe people would want it so we sold it to the Japanese!!!! PCs hello!!!Heh here is a more recent one IPOD....wasn't that Apple??????????????????????????? I haven't heard anyone making a made dash to the WalMArt to get a Sony Bean player....MIcrowave????GPS come on let's not do subliminal Bush/corporate bashing....(that is fine but the subject was energy efficiency and how to get it/what and why are Euros successfull in accomplishing it...it is not extraterrestrial technology that makes the escalators stop and not use energy it is a smiple code that one can write and use to reprogram the system in order to save energy... Victoria,
let stay on the subject….social med is a totally different area than energy efficiency…also (I lived in Germany 12 years) biking in a (on avg.) far milder climate is easier…can you imagine bike on a daily basis (even if you live w/in 5miles)to work in Atlanta in the summer??? Come on! Also (as someone else noted) they have far better public trans…and I believe we neeed better, but that does not mean folks will use it…what would be easier (in my opinion) would be to heavily subsidise/give incentives for GM, FORD etc to build more fuel efficient cars and give some more incentives to the buyer after a couple of yrs they will look at anything (car wise) that get less than (let’s say on the concervative side) 25mpg as wasteful and maybe less than 20 mpg for a truck (not the ones that contractors etc use-but the regular “commuter”) as wastefull…what irritates “The livin’HELL” out of me is both the Rep and the Dem. not listening and going for the ABSOLUTES! I love trees etc but I don’t want a 60mpg car that won’t hold ,y wife and 2 kids and 10 days worth of stuff on our way to DISNEY! But a gradual (5-10 yr) mandatory increase in MPG now that should be possible…it is not ridding a bike in 100 degree weather to work (and I can’t I’m in sales wearing a suite…) but a graduall expansion of rail and subway systems that are present so more people can use them cause when the line only goes out about 20 miles from the center of the city (ATL example) I still have to get in the car and drive a minimum of 25 miles in order to get to the first station in order to use it…hell by then I’ll just use the car..and if it is not clean, secure and have trains running at good intervals then again you’ll loose riders—-i.e. CUSTOMER SERVICE meaning you can’t have the government have total controll over it …it will fail!
PS we are not behind in technology we invented the cat converter;) in the 70s; euros did not make them manditory early 90s!!!!! We invented the VCR (we actually just did not use business sense and believe people would want it so we sold it to the Japanese!!!! PCs hello!!!Heh here is a more recent one IPOD….wasn’t that Apple??????????????????????????? I haven’t heard anyone making a made dash to the WalMArt to get a Sony Bean player….MIcrowave????GPS come on let’s not do subliminal Bush/corporate bashing….(that is fine but the subject was energy efficiency and how to get it/what and why are Euros successfull in accomplishing it…it is not extraterrestrial technology that makes the escalators stop and not use energy it is a smiple code that one can write and use to reprogram the system in order to save energy…

]]> By: Grant http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Grant Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:42:40 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/#comment-325 I think Extinct Species hit it right on the head. I was thinking about the energy cost comparison between the US and Europe as well. Also thought of the wage comparison. Do they make as much as we do? Money talks like no other. Want to drive down demand? Raise the cost. It's as simple as that. -Grant TheCornerOfficeBlog.com I think Extinct Species hit it right on the head. I was thinking about the energy cost comparison between the US and Europe as well. Also thought of the wage comparison. Do they make as much as we do?

Money talks like no other. Want to drive down demand? Raise the cost. It’s as simple as that.

-Grant
TheCornerOfficeBlog.com

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Jonathan Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:49:40 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/17/europe-all-the-time-new-york-when-it-needs-to/#comment-319 David: My question to you and everyone else on this thread: Are you already doing the low cost, easy things to save electricity? First on this list in my mind is switching from incandescent (traditional) light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs. Compact fluorescents plug into the traditional light bulb socket. There are even solutions for three way bulb sockets (though they are harder to find). I converted my house to 100% compact fluorescent a number of years ago. This solution works whether you own your living space or are renting it. And there is an excellent ROI. Second on this list is ceiling fans. I now live in an apartment that has a wall mounted air conditioner in the living room (and a broken one in my bedroom). When I was home in the worst of the heat, I would leave the air conditioner on until I went to bed. This apartment happens to have a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I found that I was able to leave the air conditioner off all night even in the worst heat that we have had in Chicago this summer. Only once or twice did I feel too warm in the morning and have to turn the air conditioner back on right away. Of course, I wouldn't have had this experience if my landlord had not put the ceiling fan in previously. But this solution definitely works for those of you who own your living space. Sincerely, Jonathan David:

My question to you and everyone else on this thread:

Are you already doing the low cost, easy things to save electricity?

First on this list in my mind is switching from incandescent (traditional) light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs. Compact fluorescents plug into the traditional light bulb socket. There are even solutions for three way bulb sockets (though they are harder to find). I converted my house to 100% compact fluorescent a number of years ago. This solution works whether you own your living space or are renting it. And there is an excellent ROI.

Second on this list is ceiling fans. I now live in an apartment that has a wall mounted air conditioner in the living room (and a broken one in my bedroom). When I was home in the worst of the heat, I would leave the air conditioner on until I went to bed. This apartment happens to have a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I found that I was able to leave the air conditioner off all night even in the worst heat that we have had in Chicago this summer. Only once or twice did I feel too warm in the morning and have to turn the air conditioner back on right away. Of course, I wouldn’t have had this experience if my landlord had not put the ceiling fan in previously. But this solution definitely works for those of you who own your living space.

Sincerely,

Jonathan

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