In the late 1980's, then President George H. Bush (W's Father) often spoke about the need to create "a thousand points of light" to solve the many societal problems we face. With many "Green People" down and out over the outcome of the recent election, the words of President Bush's Father are worth remembering. The real power to facilitate change doesn't reside with Government or large corporations -- it lies with Individuals working and coming together to achieve a common goal.
Today's Editorial in the New York Times gives an opinion of optimism to those that highly value environmental issues. In the past election, voters also passed very significant environmental initiatives. Nationwide, over $2.5 billion worth of new bonds were approved to preserve open space. Also, voters in Colorado (a pretty conservative Red State) approved a ballot initiative requiring electric utilities to generate 10% of their power from renewable sources by 2015. It's important to note that this initiative passed in spite of major opposition by the majority of the Colorado Legislature and major electric utilities in the State.
This also made us think about the reforestation efforts of our small non profit environmental organization. We recently submitted carbon sequestration data from our 120 acre treefarm to the Energy Information Agency's National Reporting of Greenhouse Gases. As the below graph represents (the red bar), our carbon sequestration efforts exceeded those of many large corporations and were even comparable to General Motors!
Comparing Treepower.org Project to Major Corporations(Metric Tons of CO2 Sequestered)
If you know of other examples of the "Little People" making a real difference in helping our environment,
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President Clinton's Opening Remarks
