“What on earth is that?” you may ask.   Quite simply it is the measurable energy that was required to create something.  To make a brick, the clay had to be dug out of the ground, transported to the brick factory, added to other ingredients (that also had to be gathered and transported), mixed together, fired in a kiln, loaded on a pallet, shipped to a project to be installed by a mason.  The final measure of embodied energy is the cost of demolishing or deconstructing an item for disposal.  All of those steps take energy and each of those steps also come at an environmental cost such as air and water pollution through creation and transportation.

I laughed when I read that “Hello World” was the default first post on WordPress when you start a blog.  Writing a program that printed “Hello World” to the computer screen was the first task that many programmers learned when they began programming.  How fitting to start learning to blog by performing a task the programmers of WordPress first learned and then made simpler for us bloggers.

Hello World!

Linda