When you have all the pre-screening details worked out, you can determine the wind turbine's location by its lot size, tower construction and cabling distance to the primary building. The ideal location is where you get the strongest winds for your budget. Higher wind speed and laminar flow are best over unobstructed land, rather than near tall woods or forests. These raise the "working" ground level relative to the height of the trees which in turn lowers the relative tower height. 

The best green energy people in the world can design the most efficient home possible but if a bunch of know-nothings move in and live as they have always done, the energy savings will be minimal.

This is the fundamental problem with reducing energy use: most people simply don't know what behavior to change or how to change it. Innovation and technology are only useful if the average consumer knows enough to make them work.

There are some energy saving ideas which are easy to promote but not so easy to implement. We're only human, after all, so things like using heating systems in the middle of the night when energy is cheapest, detecting leaks and switching off lights in empty rooms can be time-consuming or disruptive.

Unfortunately, there is no rating system for kitchen faucets. This is because kitchen water usage is deemed (correctly or not) to be governed by habit and equipment rather than a faucet's flow rate. In other words, you use more water because you cook kilos of spaghetti in huge pots than because that water comes out of the faucet quickly!