with regards to incentives, I think this is actually a place where government intervention is a good thing at the onset of new ideas and getting new programs or approaches (i.e. green building) going.  If this is the right idea (which I hope it is), then after awhile people will understand and see the benefits of building by itself, and then the ...

when people hear the terminology ''environmental policy,'' I think they usually associate it with ultra left, green-party type of movement.  But quite contrary, I was surprised to learn while working at various posts in city government that environmental policy can be (and is often) referred to something that is not even related to the protection ...