the world is your acorn

One of the reasons I love the Nashville LJ Community is posts like this one, from kateo:

So we enlisted the help of the Truth & Reconciliation Project, a Nashville non-profit that offers energy audits. They came here yesterday morning and spent several hours inspecting our house — venturing into the crawl space, climbing into the attic, and everything in between — and sat down with us for half an hour or so to discuss their findings and answer our questions. That discussion was just a bonus, really, because they’ll be providing us with a written report in a few days. But they gave us the verbal break-down of what constituted an energy emergency — as in, non-obvious big gaping holes in the house such that we might as well leave all the windows and doors open — and what was merely really, really bad.

They ask for a $50-$150 donation, sliding scale, and they’re very friendly and professional. It’s clear they’re doing this out of a genuine desire to improve energy efficiency and help decrease natural resource consumption. No profit-oriented motives, and ya gotta respect that.

People in that community, much like the bloggers at Nashville is Talking always have lots of great info and things to think about.