I'm going to be on a panel discussing the movie Power Shift on April 11 at the Lincoln Library. Because I'm special, I get to see the movie in advance; otherwise, I'd just drool on the other panelists for half an hour. It's good--anyone interested in clean energy and sustainability should drop by. In particular, you get to see Bill McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. McDonough is one of those people who's been a real visionary in promoting the kind of viewpoint shift in environmentalism that I talked about earlier: away from lessening impact and toward working like nature. And he's an architect--a businessman--so he's focused on balancing societal and environmental benefits with his need to keep his company afloat. So, come out and hear his pitch for how we can make our buildings net energy generators, rather than energy users.
ALSO: Check this out: Navarra, Spain, gets 70% of their energy from wind and solar power. That's insane! That's nuts! And that's not good enough for them: they've set a goal of 100% by 2010.