Solar Energy Research: Is TreeHugger.com a Credible Information Source?

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This blog, Simple Home Solar Energy, documents our journey toward a home powered by energy from the sun. Eventually we want to generate all the energy our home requires. Making it economically practical is part of our goal.

Implementation of renewable energy being relatively new to everyday consumers, research is a necessity. Researching is fun and information easily available from a plethora of internet sites.

One problem I’ve encountered is that the words “Going Green” is a popular marketing term used to sell everything from renewable energy to…ah…sex.

Yes. Sex.

Surfing the internet for current solar energy information can yield valuable information as well as information bordering on the ridiculous.

For example, TreeHugger.com offers valuable information about all things renewable—solar, wind, biofuels, and sustainable architecture, to name a few. They also offer tips on ways to live a “green” life with better products from furniture to wardrobe choices.

I hold a certain respect for TreeHugger’s information.

That is until now. Today they lost points with this reader.

I came across a TreeHugger article entitled, How to Green Your Sex Life

Really. Green Sex.

There is a category of advertisers who use the public concern for a healthy environment as a marketing ploy.  Just call it “green” and the public will buy it.

With this article, TreeHugger.com seems to have joined that category.

Too bad.