{"id":1728,"date":"2009-02-11T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:12:05","slug":"following-a-leed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Following a LEED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a dog on a leash the School Board is placidly following JCI’s lead on green issues. Very nice. According to today’s Trib story <\/a>we will save big money because the District’s new buildings with its new JCI chillers will save so much money in energy costs. Yup, Whenever I plug in my AC my electric bills take a big plunge. Unlike the big lake’s cooling effects electric cooling is practically free.<\/p>\n

For those who are always confused when I’m being indirect this is where a lesser writer would insert, “ha, ha,” to make it clear they are being sarcastic. Oops! I guess I’m a lesser writer. Dang it! Who will want to read my book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s an analogy. So a poor old fellow on a fixed income has to fix up his single stall garage because it leaks a little even though he doesn’t drive his car much anymore. His son steals the Dad’s credit card and orders the garage torn down to be replaced with a heated two stall garage with solar panels. This way, explains the son the Father will be saving money on his heating bills. Of course, the garage never had a heater before. <\/p>\n

This is how a green building project can put you in the red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a dog on a leash the School Board is placidly following JCI’s lead on green issues. Very nice. According to today’s Trib story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}