'Greening' Isn't Always So Good

We’re sure to get lots of hate mail for this one, which we’re okay with (better angry mail than a life of sob-filled solitude, right?). So after reading stories like “The New Trophy Home, Small and Ecological,” which is about people like John Cusack and Pierce Brosnan jumping on the green bandwagon by thinking about purchasing $2.8 million dollar, gigantic luxury homes that will produce their own energy, despite the fact that it will take the power of seventeen villages to build the behemoths, we get a little cynical and return to a story from a while back about the