busy"America must commit to producing 100% of our electricity from cheap, clean renewable energy sources like solar and wind within 10 years."
*wave flag* Go, go, go!
Now I'm wondering if there's a way to twiddle the classic Rosie the Riveter "We can do it!" image into a green-themed icon.
Here's my challenge: Each of you do one thing to move towards this goal. Look at what you do best, and find a way of connecting it with sustainable energy.
Me, I'm a wordsmith, and I support the principle of civic poetry. So here's my contribution. Feel free to pass it around if you find it useful, as long as you keep the credits intact.
10 to 1
by Elizabeth Barrette 7-18-08
by Elizabeth Barrette 7-18-08
They say “America is #1.”
#1 at what?
It used to be that America led the world
in liberty, quality of life, invention.
Now the world streams past
while America sits on its laurels.
How long has it been
since America tasted greatness?
Laurel makes a fine crown but a poor throne.
Now the world finds itself
falling out of the frying pan into the fire.
Humanity has tinkered and tweaked and tampered,
built and burned and burgeoned
beyond the Earth’s capacity to sustain.
It’s getting awful hot in here.
But humanity is also the part of Earth that thinks.
One voice rises above the rest:
"America must commit to producing 100% of our electricity from
cheap, clean renewable energy sources like solar and wind within 10 years." 1
America can be #1 again.
Any takers?
* * *
1) “Power America with Cheap, Clean Energy in 10 Years? Yes We Can!” speech by Al Gore, 7/17/08.
July 18 2008, 21:25:58 UTC 12 years ago
July 18 2008, 21:33:10 UTC 12 years ago
I say ... let's find out.
July 18 2008, 21:35:59 UTC 12 years ago
And even if it proves not possible, and we can only get, say, 50% of our power from renewable resources, that would still be an improvement over the present state.