Saturday with Green Issues and NFRC comments

A few loose ends to cover….

-- Green building as great as everyone thinks? According to this article (CLICK HERE) the answer is a resounding NO. Its an interesting piece and it shows that some people are so determined to be in the “in crowd” by building green that they don’t understand what they get… and then others expect miraculous transformations from their new facilities because of all of the good green products. Regardless I think that was the first article that I have read that brought up the pratfalls of going green….

-- Wall Street Journal had one of those sobering pieces on the awful home market… if you missed it… CLICK HERE…. I am feeling sorry for the residential side more and more because its ugly and we’re still a while a way from the uptick….

-- No way could I let the recent NFRC election results go without a comment. I wrote on this on the blog back in September:

In addition a vote for Steven Rosenstock of the Edison Electric Institute would be good too since a win for him would remove Alecia Ward from the Board as she has never been, in my opinion, fair or open to anyone or anything from our industry. Sadly, the chances of her losing are 10,000-1, but a guy can dream right?

Well folks I am also the Mush of picking NFRC races (as well as football) as Rosenstock won in what I would call an Appalachian State like upset. Unreal. Now as I was reminded a few times yesterday, there’s no guarantee that Mr Rosenstock will be any more open to our industry than Ms Ward, but we can hope. And as for Alecia Ward, I can guarantee you that she’ll be back… the NFRC will find a place for her, and as soon as something opens again, it’ll be a mortal lock that she’ll be back on board.

-- Meanwhile the NFRC board did get a major upgrade with Steve Farrar from Guardian, as his level of professionalism and expertise will surely help bring our industry concerns at least to the table. As for the other new members... hopefully Joe Hayden of Pella will keep an eye open to the fact that he has a real commercial operation in the family now with EFCO. Tony Rygg is this terms annual California representative… must be a little known by-law that someone from the CEC must hold a board spot at NFRC. Comically Rygg ran against unopposed and he could only muster 75% of the vote… 31 out of 121 people were telling a story by NOT voting for the only person on the ballot. Shame that we couldn’t find someone from the other 49 states to put in against him because they probably woulda won.

-- I will be at the NFRC meetings starting November 5.. and of course I’ll have the details here on the blog.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend….