Each person has the ability to change their world and, in turn, will bring us one step closer to a reduced carbon footprint and the salvation of our planet Earth.
Urgent need: low to middle income homeowners, subsidized housing for the elderly and disabled
In the coming years a percentage of new construction will be required to install renewable energy. Existing government facilities must be “green” in the future.
Renewable energy, the technology to make products that produce alternative and renewable energy, will produce more jobs in the manufacturing industry, the technical industry, will ultimately reduce the existing carbon in our atmosphere, slow global warming, increase the longevity of our planet and protect our earth through green technology.
I remember reading an article about a city that implemented assistance programs for apartments and houses that allow residents to pay for renewable energy through low-cost loans. These low-cost loans allow families, the elderly, and the disabled to heat, cool, and produce electricity for their home or apartment that would otherwise be prohibitive. Excess electricity can be sold to the local utility company. There are also periodic tax incentives for the use of renewable energy. Those cities that have been at the forefront of implementation and subsidized loans are praised for their deployment of renewable energy sources for homes and buildings. They should be commended.
I have been researching renewable energy for seven years and trying to find ways and means to find the right products and make them available and affordable for those who need them most, the American owner is a perfect example. Those with fixed incomes in subsidized housing, still forced to pay high utility costs is another example.
All of the recommended companies, organizations, and individuals I spoke to did not have a concept of ways and means of sourcing alternative energy products at an affordable cost for the average low to middle income homeowner. None of them had ideas in the direction I was looking for. Manufacturing facilities that produce renewable and alternative energy products exist in many regions of North America. What America needs are state, federal, or national policies created to finance and subsidize loans for low- to middle-income American homeowners.
President Obama has an administration that can create policies to make renewable energy available to help those who need it most at an affordable cost to them. Now is the time to start the process. No family or individual should have to choose heat over food or medical care. I am looking for ways to bridge the gap between product costs for low- and middle-income households. Rather than giving encouragement to greedy business executives and large companies, who will continue to squander monetary gains, help me find ways to invest those stimulus dollars into producing renovation products, companies to install renewable energy products, staff to maintain the products after installation, subsidized loans to homeowners who use the products and support the industries that will provide the goods needed to support the renewable products industry for residential use and consumption.
Once the first model is in place and up and running, it will be easier to help the next community implement the same strategies. We can help each other succeed in our quest to deploy more renewable energy in one area at a time. As a result, many jobs will be created.
Buildings are the biggest contributors to the “carbon footprint”. Most buildings in the US are homes and dwellings. I have faith in the American people and I believe that if I had the opportunity, I would be grateful for the opportunity to be able to personally benefit from renewable energy and to finally be able to get off the existing, expensive, unreliable, and BIG Business controlled electrical grids. We should have learned the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, Ike, Gustav, the ice storms, blizzards, floods and blackouts are gone the American people are at the mercy of existing public services. Obviously, bigger is not better to control the energy we pay for. Individual buildings that are self-sufficient through renewable energy are the ultimate solution. Buildings will always be susceptible to natural disasters. Never happen are the big “commercial” utilities that leave entire regions without electricity, water and natural gas. The best news for home and homeowners using th Their own renewable energy is that they will not be subject to the high rate hikes from the utilities because “they” had to spend money to put “their” grid back on. go online and leave “your” customers in the dark (literally) and make them wait for the services they paid for.
Help me make a difference. Send a letter, email or call your local state representatives, senators, governor and / or visit: The United States Department of Energy on their WEB: http://www.energy.gov/ to make your voice heard.
