Blowin' in the wind
Bob Dylan sang (if you can call it that) "How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?...The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." True, I'm repurposing his song, but it's kind of uncanny how well it fits.
When I was born in 1970, we imported 24% of our oil. By most accounts today it's almost 70% and increasing all the time. We'll spend $700 billion on foreign oil this year. I believe it's critical that we reduce our impact on the earth and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. This is one of the things that robs me of sleep, as it seems such a large, unmanageable issue.
T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil man of all things, has developed a plan to reduce our dependency on foreign oil by $300 billion per year - through wind power, which is completely clean - within 10 years. He's an oil man, so I maintain a bit of reservation, but he's the only one who has come up with a viable, clean, dramatically impactful plan that makes sense. If you want to learn more about it, check out the easy-to-understand whiteboard presentation of the Pickens Plan and see what it's all about.
Wind farms are rather beautiful for their function, and (in my opinion), aesthetically. They can be located in water...
on existing farms...
in deserts...
on frozen tundra...
in valleys...
along my beloved California bluffs...
on existing energy equipment...
by buildings...
and even in metropolitan St. Louis...
The above photo is of Alberici Enterprises, a very cool construction company that has an enviable, comprehensive approach to not only lessening their impact on the environment, but actually improving it as well. But, for the purposes of this blog entry, the important thing is the windmill to the right of their headquarters. Just that one turbine generates 20% of their total energy needs. And it looks great. And it serves as a visual cue to everyone that this is a construction company with green capabilities. Great marketing? I think so.
I hope you'll think about the Pickens Plan and how much wind we have in the United States, and consider throwing your support behind it if you haven't already.
Peace.
When I was born in 1970, we imported 24% of our oil. By most accounts today it's almost 70% and increasing all the time. We'll spend $700 billion on foreign oil this year. I believe it's critical that we reduce our impact on the earth and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. This is one of the things that robs me of sleep, as it seems such a large, unmanageable issue.
T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil man of all things, has developed a plan to reduce our dependency on foreign oil by $300 billion per year - through wind power, which is completely clean - within 10 years. He's an oil man, so I maintain a bit of reservation, but he's the only one who has come up with a viable, clean, dramatically impactful plan that makes sense. If you want to learn more about it, check out the easy-to-understand whiteboard presentation of the Pickens Plan and see what it's all about.
Wind farms are rather beautiful for their function, and (in my opinion), aesthetically. They can be located in water...
on existing farms...
in deserts...
on frozen tundra...
in valleys...
along my beloved California bluffs...
on existing energy equipment...
by buildings...
and even in metropolitan St. Louis...
The above photo is of Alberici Enterprises, a very cool construction company that has an enviable, comprehensive approach to not only lessening their impact on the environment, but actually improving it as well. But, for the purposes of this blog entry, the important thing is the windmill to the right of their headquarters. Just that one turbine generates 20% of their total energy needs. And it looks great. And it serves as a visual cue to everyone that this is a construction company with green capabilities. Great marketing? I think so.
I hope you'll think about the Pickens Plan and how much wind we have in the United States, and consider throwing your support behind it if you haven't already.
Peace.
Posted by Tammy at 10/29/2008 11:30 PM 
Categories: Politics, Marketing, Eco
Tags: wind farms Alberici
Categories: Politics, Marketing, Eco
Tags: wind farms Alberici
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