Rona, you took the words right out of our collective solar mouths. The White House, the green washing. This is why Free Hot Water, a solar hot water company, is part of a coalition of 17 solar companies and solar professionals who offered FREE solar to the White House for Earth Day. So far, no response. You can read more about the reasoning behind this initiative in our blog post:
Obama and the White House need to lead by example. The only thing good about these recent coal and oil disasters is that it brings awareness to the fact that there are viable alternatives now with wind and solar. Thanks for your great thoughts here.
Rona: An excellent editorial all the way through. Good members of Congress should point out countries that are already making the transition to clean sources (such as Germany and Denmark?) and pressure Obama not to expand oil, coal, or nuclear–especially dangerous projects such as offshore drilling that could devastate vast ecosystems and multibillion-dollar fishing, tourism, and other industries (for those who care more about jobs than about wildlife). Fossil fuels should be only transitional resources, only where the environment’s already been devastated, and not where an accident could create a long-lasting catastrophe. As articles in the New York Times in just the last couple of days make clear, we can’t rely on offshore drilling when the minimally regulated industry has gotten away with no reliable backup systems for prevention or rapid cleanup of major accidents–just as we can’t rely on more nuclear plants when they remain vulnerable to terrorist attack as well as accidents; an employee who worked at five different plants went over to Al Qaeda and could help prepare an attack on the cooling systems that prevent a catastrophic meltdown. Enough of reliance on these ultra-dangerous systems, when a “Manhattan project” of retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency and building wind and solar systems and a new national power grid would be far better, despite the initial costs. It’s time for our side to get mad and start having rallies, writing letters to the editor, and lobbying members of Congress.
To Rona Fried, Please take a look at this report That I sent to the DOE, /Users/georgeharvey/Desktop/Modernization of an 1890s Wind-powered Hydrogen Economy For Our Present and Future Needs 7-10-09.pdf
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Rona, you took the words right out of our collective solar mouths. The White House, the green washing. This is why Free Hot Water, a solar hot water company, is part of a coalition of 17 solar companies and solar professionals who offered FREE solar to the White House for Earth Day. So far, no response. You can read more about the reasoning behind this initiative in our blog post:
http://www.freehotwater.com/blog/free-hot-water-offers-free-solar-hot-water-system-to-the-white-house-and-we-mean-it/
Obama and the White House need to lead by example. The only thing good about these recent coal and oil disasters is that it brings awareness to the fact that there are viable alternatives now with wind and solar. Thanks for your great thoughts here.
Rona: An excellent editorial all the way through. Good members of Congress should point out countries that are already making the transition to clean sources (such as Germany and Denmark?) and pressure Obama not to expand oil, coal, or nuclear–especially dangerous projects such as offshore drilling that could devastate vast ecosystems and multibillion-dollar fishing, tourism, and other industries (for those who care more about jobs than about wildlife). Fossil fuels should be only transitional resources, only where the environment’s already been devastated, and not where an accident could create a long-lasting catastrophe. As articles in the New York Times in just the last couple of days make clear, we can’t rely on offshore drilling when the minimally regulated industry has gotten away with no reliable backup systems for prevention or rapid cleanup of major accidents–just as we can’t rely on more nuclear plants when they remain vulnerable to terrorist attack as well as accidents; an employee who worked at five different plants went over to Al Qaeda and could help prepare an attack on the cooling systems that prevent a catastrophic meltdown. Enough of reliance on these ultra-dangerous systems, when a “Manhattan project” of retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency and building wind and solar systems and a new national power grid would be far better, despite the initial costs. It’s time for our side to get mad and start having rallies, writing letters to the editor, and lobbying members of Congress.
To Rona Fried, Please take a look at this report That I sent to the DOE, /Users/georgeharvey/Desktop/Modernization of an 1890s Wind-powered Hydrogen Economy For Our Present and Future Needs 7-10-09.pdf