In the Growing Green News this week:
From the Whitehouse
President Obama starts the ball rolling with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. “…the plan will update our electric grid by laying more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines; weatherize 2.5 million homes… and triple the number of science fellowships.” Watch the full report on video.
From the New York Times
Are the Democrats already divided, and what are green states and brown states? They have this little map which states that lawmakers in charge of regulating greenhouse gas emissions come primarily from the east and west coast states, while most manufacturing takes place in the Midwest using coal for power.
From the Christian Science Monitor
“most of the action so far on renewables is local and needs only local connections to utilities. What’s needed are “microgrids,” or small-scale electricity distribution systems with many sources and local storage – much like the Internet – with a centralized long-distance system only as backup. Thousands of buildings now generate much of their electricity from rooftop solar panels, for example. Denmark, which relies on renewables for nearly a third of its electricity, has moved to microgrids” – read the full article.
From the Huffington Post
“Let’s give a cheer for President Obama’s order Monday that his Environmental Protection Agency reconsider President Bush’s rejection of the request by California and 13 other states to write their own rules on greenhouse gas emissions.”
I’d say there is much work to be done. Hopefully we are now moving in the right direction. What do you think?
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It is so refreshing, that after so long, somebody in power is doing what is right for the environment! I am genuinely optimistic about President Obama’s ability to bring green values into the mainstream and undo the damage of the Bush era. Le
I agree Electric Cars Gal. Having someone in the Whitehouse for 8 years who totally ignored science was very hard. Not that making progress is necessarily easy, but you need a driver who at least wants to take the journey
I too am optimistic – stopping Bush’s last minute efforts to undermine environmental safeguards hit the top of my “Hurrah!” list.