{"id":391,"date":"2008-07-20T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/07\/20\/the-anderkoos-have-gone-green-nstar-green\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:40:50","slug":"the-anderkoos-have-gone-green-nstar-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/07\/the-anderkoos-have-gone-green-nstar-green\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anderkoos have gone green&#8230; Nstar Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding ourselves unable to install a windmill on the roof, Gene and I choose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nstar.com\/residential\/customer_information\/nstar_green\/nstar_green.asp\">NStar Green option<\/a>  today. So this means that we&#8217;ll be running our lights and laptops on wind power, right? Not quite. Our switch to green <em>supports<\/em> wind power, but apparently can&#8217;t guarantee wind sourcing. For that, we&#8217;ll be paying an extra $2-$4 a month for the 150-200 kilowatt hours that we typically use. <\/p>\n<p>How do we know that premium will, indeed, support wind power and move us closer to the day when wind is a standard option &#8211; perhaps even a cheaper one &#8211; on our energy bill? Well, we&#8217;re relying on the good word of folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clf.org\/index.asp\">Conservation Law Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/\">Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>, both of whom collaborated with NStar to create this program. <\/p>\n<p>And while we wait for our green-energy-wind-power utopia to develop here in Massachusetts, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/07\/07\/080707fa_fact_kolbert\">this scenario<\/a> in the New Yorker. Could it happen here? <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding ourselves unable to install a windmill on the roof, Gene and I choose the NStar Green option today. So this means that we&#8217;ll be running our lights and laptops on wind power, right? Not quite. Our switch to green &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/07\/the-anderkoos-have-gone-green-nstar-green\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}