<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/13/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">mark r. seman</b> <<a href="mailto:baukunst@moscow.com">baukunst@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3"> </font>i do not think that a "green" Hawkins project will solve anything; it only has the opportunity to address a set of pressing issues.
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<div>While you present many worthwhile ideas, I don't quite agree with this response...though I think I understand what you mean.</div>
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<div>A "Green" Hawkins project could serve as an example of responsible environmentally oriented economic development to the entire Inland Empire, and make a measurable impact, however small, on energy and resource conservation. No, of course it would not save the whole damn planet. But it would be in part a solution (as it adds to the problem), just as every hybrid vehicle on the Palouse is in part a solution (as it adds to the problem).
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<div>Your statement seems dismissive of the "incrementalism" that should be applauded for any environmentally friendly effort, however small, whether it be someone putting one lonely solar panel on their roof, or walking to work just one day a week, rather than driving their 4 wheel drive monster truck, or buying a few bucks of Green energy credits to support wind power, or even the few (here comes the hate mail) "Green" Wal-Marts (yes, they exist!).
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<div>We do need a coordinated national (even global) investment model and strategy, combining public and private sectors, to address the energy and climate change crisis, but every little effort makes a difference.</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div><br>