IKEA - Solar Panels in Isle 4!

I remember saying to myself “here it comes,” the Green Wave! It was about five years or so ago when I started reading that the next big thing in corporate America was going to be “Going Green.”

I said great, let’s save the world and make a buck while we are at it. You can’t leave this type of philosophical shift up to the government can you? I mean, these are the same guys that lived through one oil nightmare and did nothing about it, right?

So, this time big companies instead of big government decided to take charge. Companies like General Electric, Toyota, and Green Mountain Energy all hopped on the Green bandwagon in their own special ways.

But that was all foreplay…

God bless IKEA! The company known for selling you low-priced, colorful, uncomfortable, furniture in flat cardboard boxes is going green in a different way!

Through an IKEA spin-off aptly named Greentech, IKEA plans to sell college kids and empty-nesters alike solar and water conservation products along with other environmentally friendly items sprinkled among the EKTORP sofas and the LEKSVIK coffee tables.

To that I say fantastic! Only problem is, if I can’t put together a bookshelf, how the hell am I going to hang solar panels?