We, our once innovative business community and especially the once innovative workforce, brought solar and other alternatives on board starting some forty years ago, use to install or be on jobs where they were, but the brakes were locked by the same corporate mentalities and their funded followers now using the meme's of denial of climate change to achieve same. We are rapidly falling behind other countries and even so called third world countries, that used to envie what we were building, now!!
07/ 2/11 - Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off neighborhood dogs.
But things have changed at Gowda's home in the remote southern village of Nada. A solar-powered lamp pours white light across the front of the mud-walled hut she shares with her three grown children, a puppy and a newborn calf. Now during the nighttime, she can cook, tend to her livestock and get water from a nearby well.
"I can see!" Gowda said, giggling through a 100-watt smile. In her 70 years, this is the first time she has had any kind of electricity. {read more}
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