Last week, during his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that our generation’s Sputnik moment is here, and it is clean energy. Calling on Americans to invest in the future, he cited clean energy as his prime example of how America must reinvent itself to stay competitive in the global economy. As part of this declaration, Obama challenged the country to join him in a new goal—by 2035, generate 80% of America’s electricity from “clean energy sources.”
The reasons for transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy are numerous—job creation, global competitiveness, reduced childhood asthma, ending our dependence on oil, halting the flow of oil money to hostile regimes. What has gotten lost in the mix recently is safeguarding the health of our planet – species, ecosystems and natural resources – from the impacts of climate change. The buildup of carbon pollution from fossil fuels is the key driver for c
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February 3, 2011 10:57 AM
Renewables Can Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Last week, during his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that our generation’s Sputnik moment is here, and it is clean energy. Calling on Americans to invest in the future, he cited clean energy as his prime example of how America must reinvent itself to stay competitive in the global economy. As part of this declaration, Obama challenged the country to join him in a new goal—by 2035, generate 80% of America’s electricity from “clean energy sources.”
The reasons for transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy are numerous—job creation, global competitiveness, reduced childhood asthma, ending our dependence on oil, halting the flow of oil money to hostile regimes. What has gotten lost in the mix recently is safeguarding the health of our planet – species, ecosystems and natural resources – from the impacts of climate change. The buildup of carbon pollution from fossil fuels is the key driver for c
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