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 on the price at the pump is going up.
And as transportation cost rises, so will the costs of our food.
That means that we have to wean ourselves from fossil fuels and re-engineer our lives
to adapt to a world with growing energy scarcity.
The good news is your neighbors 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 that we are going to able to
address the issue facing us today and generations to come.
We have significant challenges in front of us.
CO2 emissions are pouring into the atmosphere.
If the global climate warms beyond an average increase 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 the framework for a cross-section of communities to come together and create
the infrastructure to turn vision into action.