- FACT: “We have enough wind and solar to power our country 100 times over.“
- FACT: Modernizing our electric system will build a strong economy & create jobs & energy independence while protecting our environment.
- FACT: This past year, prices for solar panels have decreased by 50%.
- FACT: Electricity from wind costs less than electricity from coal in many places.
- FACT: “In 2011, the clean energy sector grew twice as fast as the overall economy.”
- FACT: Clean energy is creating jobs.
- FACT: Worldwide investments in clean energy totaled $1 trillion last year.
- FACT: We need to take a lead on clean energy.
- FACT: Clean energy is suffering from expensive; negative attacks from fossil fuel industry.
- FACT: Fossil fuel industry receives 75 times more subsidies than clean energy sources.
- FACT: The clean energy sector creates 3 times as many jobs as fossil fuel sector.
- FACT: 2011, global investments in clean energy surpassed fossil fuel investments.
- FACT: Walmart & Google have company goals to be supplied 100% by renewable energy
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FACTS: Clean energy will help create jobs, strengthen our economy, increase our energy independence and shrink our carbon footprint.
Germany passes US in renewable energy and democracy
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on the fracking resistance in NY see
http://solidshale.wordpress.com/
many other good blogs on it too! Hopefully this will get too costly and they’ll give up!
Hopefully.
Germany has long surpassed the US in solar/RE energy. They installed more solar in the 3rd quarter of 2011 than the US has ever installed. It now has 20x the per capita solar than the US. Much of Europe and parts of Canada also surpass US: http://www.wind-works.org/Solar/NowRe-electedPresidentObamaShouldExamineUSRenewableRank.html