Zero Carbon Is the Goal for Woodstock
published on Thu. May. 3rd, '07 by Swami AtmaI think we live in a historical time. In the last couple years the majority of people have truly become aware of the necessity of preserving the environment or stopping its destruction.
This message, by the way, was clamored by ecologists since the 1960's but they were laughed at by most. Of course some countries and societies were faster in terms of understanding the problems and working on solutions to solve them.
The next step is for society as a whole, which means for the great majority of individuals, to actually take steps that involve self sacrifice in most occasions, in order to remedy the problems.
Here is a great example of this.
The goal might sound as unlikely as stuffing smoke back into a smokestack. Even sympathetic experts call it challenging. It likely would require many of the town's roughly 6,200 people to install solar panels and geothermal hookups. But it's tough to find a resident who doesn't support the project.
Alan Carey said he switched to compact fluorescent bulbs, burns more wood and tries to drive less.
''I don't know if we can do it,'' Carey said, ''but we're going to try.''
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