Development in harmony with nature

… O’Brien said those who squawk about the costs of going green are shortsighted.

“Between peak oil and climate change, energy is going to get very, very expensive,” he said. “The dilemma of the dollar is that dollars don’t measure social values. Global warming is the biggest, most colossal catastrophe that the human race has ever seen. You’ve got to start somewhere.”

Still, selling the idea of green will be tough, especially in a lower-income city like San Antonio, said Shanel Ramirez, one of the organizers of the Alamo City summit and a staffer with Build San Antonio Green, a program of the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy.

“When people have … in mind that building green means more money, they get turned off, but that’s a myth,” Ramirez said.

San Antonio Express-News