Energy Change: It's Coming!
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
by Jessop Petroski
http://www.energy-efficient-home-improvement.com
You're well aware of all the 'green' catch phrases by now.
The word seems to present itself in every form these days. Get used to it, it's gonna be here for a while! We are slowly, but surely moving our ways into an Alternative Energy Economy.
We're familiar with green building, energy audits, and carbon footprints, but a new age of green buzzwords is emerging that carry even more meaning than their predecessors. This new economy carries with it economic and social implications of which the world has never seen before.
Why should you care?
Simple. Decreasing our reliance on oil-both foreign and domestic could start to inject some of the $1 trillion or more we spend on the stuff every year back into our economy.
Let's be real though, We won't become oil independent overnight, but every barrel saved is a deposit in the collective domestic piggy bank.
This is the first pillar of an alternative energy economy.
We need to make our economy run on 25% renewable power compared to today's 6% in the next few years. Very doable, especially if Senator Obama takes office in January.
This would be the second step. Getting a government in place that will actually make a change.
So what's left?
The people!
Migrating from ideas to action and seeing real change, progress, and results.
Free market initiative combined with government oversite and support will lead to renewed and sustained investment, the creation of jobs, and the deployment of voluminous amounts of renewable energy projects and capacity in the form of new wind farms, solar installations, geothermal and tidal use, electric vehicles, and new electricity transmission.
But we as a society can't wait for the government to kick our hind ends into gear, it is up to the American people (and other societies) to be PROactive instead of REactive.
What can we as individuals start doing NOW to prevent panic and huge expenses in the future?
We take it one step at a time.
There's no need to rush, not yet.
Becoming and Altnerative Energy Economy means becoming a Free Energy economy.
So get going your green lovin' society. The time is now! Embrass it.
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