what do sub-prime mortgage have to do with Atlantic salmon, SUVs and globalization?
They all depend on cheap oil, but oil is peaking
so you can count the price of pump is going up
and as transportation cost rises, so are the costs of our food.
That means that we have to win ourselves fossil fuels and re-enginer our lives
to adapt to a world with growing energy scarcity.
A good news is our neighbor and your neighborhood are about to get a lot more important
in the not too distant future.
Margaret Mead, a famous anthropologist once said,
"Never underestimate how a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"
That's where community power comes in.
Thinking and acting locally is the only way we are going to able to
address the issue facing us today and generations to come.
We have significant challenge in front of us.
CO2 emissions are pouring into the atmosphere.
If the global climate warms beyond an average of 2 degrees,
the impacts will be far more devastating than we can imagine.
Community power and the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, OSEA, is a way for people
to share adversity and decide what to do about it
while creating economic benefits.
The green energy and green economy act is unlike anything else in North America.
It created framework for cross section communities to come together and create
the infrastructure turn vision into action.