WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what do sub-prime mortgage have to do with Atlantic salmon, SUVs and globalization? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They all depend on cheap oil, but oil is peaking 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so you can count the price of pump is going up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and as transportation cost rises, so are the costs of our food. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That means that we have to win ourselves fossil fuels and re-enginer our lives 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to adapt to a world with growing energy scarcity. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A good news is our neighbor and your neighborhood are about to get a lot more important 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the not too distant future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Margaret Mead, a famous anthropologist once said, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Never underestimate how a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's where community power comes in. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thinking and acting locally is the only way we are going to able to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 address the issue facing us today and generations to come. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We have significant challenge in front of us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 CO2 emissions are pouring into the atmosphere. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If the global climate warms beyond an average of 2 degrees, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the impacts will be far more devastating than we can imagine. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Community power and the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, OSEA, is a way for people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to share adversity and decide what to do about it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 while creating economic benefits. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The green energy and green economy act is unlike anything else in North America. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It created framework for cross section communities to come together and create 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the infrastructure turn vision into action.