Upon reading a recent post on the Bioneers website (great source of enviro-news), I beacame a little more aware of the staggering statistics on Global warming. In the article entitltled, Stepping Back from The Brink Of Global Warming, the damage is measured and computed, and in turn, broken down and classified into managable groupings.Hey Reader, did you know???:
The US is 5% of the global population, but 25% + of the global greenhouse gas emmission (direct cause of depletion of our so covated ozone).
- Typicall, your food travels 1500 ft to 2000 ft from farm to plate.
Agriculture generates 8% of our greenhouse emmissions.
100% wind and solar power is a viable option 20-30 years down the road.
...But assuming we made it an emergency mandate to establish 100 % solar and wind tommorow we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a solid 50% +.
Along those lines.....
Places like Portugal are starting to implement strategies similar to this plan of action. They recently installed a wind power initiative in which 750,000 homes with be juiced by wind energy. Portugal is clearly trying to move up in the renewable energy resource elite, a chic club that only certain EU members have achieved as well as the likes of Denmark and Spain. This is truley class act by Portugal, i'll research and tryto post my findings on their operation as well as similar ones.
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Their is also a Bioneers conference this weekend on the CU Boulder campus. I will be attending select lectures with a few of my peers. Hope to see you there!
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