What do we do about climate change? Stop setting things on fire, duh! Start using alternative energy everywhere instead of fossil fuels. It’s not a “tomorrow” technology, as I point out, we’re had solar and wind power licked for years, even decades.
I’d just like to point out on my local Iowa scene: MidAmerican is at 50% renewable energy and is making plans to go 100%. They can’t do this without real estate to park the wind turbines, however, so please, folks, let’s be tolerant of a few wind turbines in the neighborhood if it means cheaper energy bills, less dependence on fossil fuels, and a happy, healthy planet? Small sacrifice, right? I’ve visited wind turbines, they’re not that bad to live near.
Iowa is a state with a great renewable energy record, so if a “flyover country” state that still thinks Rep. Steve King is a good idea can be this progressive, it can happen everywhere.
BONUS BUCK: An all-girl engineer team designed solar-powered tents for the homeless! This is in the San Fernando Valley area of California, and having been born there myself, let me tell you the Inland Empire is as good as a third-world poverty-stricken refugee camp for disenfranchised America. But solar-powered tents just go to show what happens when we tap into the world’s most under-appreciated energy resource.
UPDATE: At GeekyDomain I also shivered out a post on Green Gifts for Green Geeks, with some amazing sustainable energy finds. Why everybody doesn’t have a solar powered backpack to charge their mobile phone is beyond me. I’m sorry, was free energy just not sufficiently supportive of Wall Street?
