The future begins with today

Welcome to the future; a US company is shooting for harvesting solar energy in space, the technology exists but the cost is high.

Britain is not looking so good though in regards to solar energy, Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) promised government investment in alternative energy but is lagging on the part where he gives alternative energy companies money.

Wind Power is doing well in this recession. Wind power has a promising future but we have to find a better way to build these things, it takes a lot of steel to build a single turbine.

MotherJones gives an informative rant on our economy and the waste we create, we throw away enough aluminum every three months to replace the world's plane fleet. Finding our way to a new economy is difficult, it takes us being informed and driving the market with our consumption, or lack thereof.

A recent "green" hype for governments is to offer cash for old cars, seems like a good idea, right? This article is critical of the idea, and so am I. I think that we should be putting new non-combustion engines in old cars, it is the most efficient way to change over our vehicle infrastructure. The only reason governments are so happy about this program is that it can temporarily push up the purchase of new vehicles from failing car manufacturers. We spend too much energy keeping dying industries afloat, we should be focusing on retraining our workforce to work in the economy of the future.

Oil prices are low and staying low due to increased demand from the current recession. I will always say this about oil prices: as long as oil prices are low private investment in alternative energy will be slow.

Stoves in poorer regions of the world: a new focus for abating climate change. Sometimes environmental degradation is due to poverty, solution: either buy them new stoves or develop their country out of poverty.

Obesity is killing us, in many ways. Check this out: many environmental problems would be less severe if people in the industrialized world ate less food and less meat. The damage we cause by eating so much meat is unneeded. Vegetarianism is not the answer, just eating less meat. Why do we as a society take so long make such needed changes?

Telsa is creating more affordable electric cars.