Well, as my main man (actually I never meet him) Bob Dylan once said "Times, they are a changing". Some for better and some not so much. I recently took a trip back to my home town in upstate NY, population of about 30,000 and found that since my last trip in December that the amount of Priuses (is that right or would just be Prius, you know like deer) has increased exponentially. This could be that I keep seeing the same ones over and over, you know small city, but I do not believe so. I do believe that we have reached a tipping point where most Americans do believe that there is a problem with Global Warming and our dependence on fossil fuels and are showing their concern with consumer choices. This will trickle up, that's how it works - up not down, to our elected officials eventually. Question though, as citizens how do we force change in our communities, especially the smaller ones. Change in the effect that our local governments spend money on renewables for office buildings, their car fleets, etc and so forth... help me out. Where is the Sierra Club in these places and how do we make our voices louder then pocket books or wallets can afford.
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umm, cool? I guess someone has found a way to sell ice cubes to eskimos, or some similar expression.
Well, as my main man (actually I never meet him) Bob Dylan once said "Times, they are a changing". Some for better and some not so much. I recently took a trip back to my home town in upstate NY, population of about 30,000 and found that since my last trip in December that the amount of Priuses (is that right or would just be Prius, you know like deer) has increased exponentially. This could be that I keep seeing the same ones over and over, you know small city, but I do not believe so. I do believe that we have reached a tipping point where most Americans do believe that there is a problem with Global Warming and our dependence on fossil fuels and are showing their concern with consumer choices. This will trickle up, that's how it works - up not down, to our elected officials eventually. Question though, as citizens how do we force change in our communities, especially the smaller ones. Change in the effect that our local governments spend money on renewables for office buildings, their car fleets, etc and so forth... help me out. Where is the Sierra Club in these places and how do we make our voices louder then pocket books or wallets can afford.
Priui.
anonymous poster, #2, check out our Cool Cities campaign, which builds on the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement:
http://www.coolcities.us/
It's precisely what you're talking about; i.e., working from the bottom up.
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