Paul Wheaton is a permaculture advocate and the steward of Permies.com, a permaculture forum as well as a podcast, and a blog on his home city of Missoula. He's been really honest about what he thinks is greenwashing and has stayed strong as a negative campaigned has been waged against him. He really has been negative about florescent light bulbs and says that they are worse than incandescent for these reasons:
1. They contain mercury unlike incandescent 2. They cost more money to make and make corporations richer 3. 30 percent of people get headaches from the bulbs 4. They use more electicity to run 5. Their lives are shorter.
Electric companys have an insentive to attack him.
Here are some other things that he disagrees with 1. Greenhouses, because they require more water and human input to keep the plants alive 2. Consensus based run organizations, because they often fail to have any focus
Here are some things he loves: 1. Diatomaceous Earth are microrocks that will cut up bugs and insects in soil and protect your plants but are safe to eat 3. Rocket Stoves 4. Portable electric Heaters: Thinking of heating to heat a person rather than a house saves gas and energy 5. Hugelculture Beds for using only biomass to reduce the amount of amount of watering a farmer has to do 6. Cast Iron Skillets because they last a very long time and the ones that have rusted can be cleaned up after decades of not being used.
He argues as enthusiastically for what he likes as what he dislikes. I believe the environmental movement needs leaders like Paul Wheaton who will bravely and honestly disagree with techniques that he doesn't believe in and says why in a reasonable argument. Not only this, but he offers simple and low-tech solutions for people to empower themselves. That is truly sustainable how.
Check him out at permies.com.
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