The New Green Economy™

If you’re an existing home owner and are considering energy-efficient improvements this year, there are several options that you may want to consider.  

The three major tax credits are listed below.  Before making your purchases, remember to research the specific product and make sure the manufacturer qualifies for the energy-efficiency rating under the IRS specifications.

I must admit that I have not been following the debate on healthcare all that closely.  As is true for many people in life, I guess I didn't care enough to follow it as it much as I should because it did not apply to me...or so I thought.

I am currently a graduate student at Clemson University.  For anyone that has ever been a student, you know that tight living is a part of the lifestyle.  In grad school, I received an assistantship, which not only paid for my schooling, but meant that I had to pay  something like $37/semester for health insurance.  Now, in my final semester, I am only taking 6 credits, removing me from full-time status, and thus from the insurance subsidy.  Instead of paying the full price to the University and being limited to the University Health Center, I opted to apply for a single coverage, BlueCross BlueShield plan.  I was approved, and for a decent personal plan, dental, and vision, I was to pay $139.53.  Maybe I am naive, but I was okay with that.

I just walked in the door to find a letter from BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.  In the letter, I was informed of the following: 

With all the talk on carbon credits, cap and trade agreements, and proposed policies regarding carbon “pollution”, one question needs to be considered: what is carbon, and why a carbon tax?

Carbon is life.  It is the 6^th element on the Periodic Table of Elements.  It is one of the four most abundant elements in the universe: hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and carbon.  All life is composed of carbon.  Carbon is the chemical basis of all known life on Earth.

If carbon is the basis for all life, are we as a nation proposing a tax on life?

In 2600 BC, on 200 acres, the Oldest City in the Americas, the Origin of American Civilization, thrived.  The Lost Pyramids of Caral encompass a city with some of the largest pyramids in the world, uncovered in the sand mounds of the Peruvian Desert, between the Pacific Ocean and the fertile forests.

There are two methods to follow when building a home:

I love the way it looks and I love that it slows everything downnnnnn. It almost forces you to stop and enjoy the glisten. Rowdy, my 10 pound dog has fairly long hair this time of year, so he comes in with decorations of little white balls of snow all over his undersides and legs - grinning from ear to ear.

With the new website up I feel like I'm decompressing, like I have my life in hand for a change. New projects are perking around the corner, for right now, everything is kopecetic.

Enlightened Business tomorrow in interviewing Wayne Robert, a Canadian, who has  a plan for ending the recession through agriculture. You can listen on the website Friday; http://www.ethicalimpact.com