The issues that inform the concept of sustainability are as varied as the perspectives of those that endeavor to engage in the conversation. What I've found in El Paso is a very low-level of conversation about what it means to sustain a community such as ours. There are pockets of folks doing good works and trying to educate us about what it means to live in such a way that we take no more than we give from our environment, to create a balance.
But I think that one of the most important ways to engage in the conversation is to know about it. We only know what we are allowed to know. So if you have something to educate us about please do so. In my experience, learning and being aware of what's happening in the much hyped realm of renewable energy is key for beginning the conversation. Here's my attempt at that.
- HL Schulte
- I've been doing things renewable since I needed a switch from things Internet. Its funny but I used to be known as the web guy and now people call me the solar guy. The thread that weaves those two worlds together is the fact that the former, in its nascency, was not really accepted nor understood deeply, for the impact it would have on changing the way in which we live in the everyday. The same is true for the renewable world. Imagine a conversation with your children, or your friends' children, or a group of young folks who, when asked if they can remember a time without solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal (and the ones to be discovered) just look at you like you're a freaky fossil from the 20th Century - I predict that look will come and sooner than we think.
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