Interesting opinion piece about renewable energy.

I’ll sit in a car and drive ten or twelve miles to visit an assisted living facility today.

I sit here now and tap my fingers on plastic keys that translate my thoughts into these black symbols, all attached to the TVA power grid through an AC-DC transformer and electrical cord.

I’m surrounded by plastic boxes, cardboard boxes, furniture and manufactured sunroom components that required fossil fuel based energy consumption.

My only compromise about living a modern suburban life is having no lawn to mow, fertilise or spray with insect repellant.

Otherwise, I’m a full-fledged member of Mass Consumer Consumption, Inc.

Could I have gotten up earlier and started walking to the assisted living facility?

Or pushed a bike up over an Alabama mountain and ridden down the other side to get to the facility?

Sure.

But I won’t.

And if I won’t, who will?

In the current news cycle of natural disasters, can we attribute any of our modern conveniences to creating weather extremes?

Is sustainable engineering achievable and if so, where does it start?

Less blogging, more walking?

Shut up and get on my feet, in other word.

My prayers and sympathies to the families in Joplin, Missouri, bomb-ravaged areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and other places where families and communities face havoc.

Time for me to make another platelet donation to the Red Cross.