Saving The Planet One Beat At A Time...

Here's a video I watched last night discussing the promising future of the Green Economy.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/the_gospel_of_green/video.html

The video was produced by the CBC and aired originally on their program, "The Fifth Estate."

While the video deals primarily with Canada, The Fifth Estate details numerous excellent and compelling reasons to accelerate the Green Economy globally.

Wishing you all the best,
COMMON RAVEN

Here's an except about the content...
Hermann Scheer is a German parliamentarian who has turned ideas into practical solutions. Because of the laws that bear his name, Germany is now a solar-paneled, windmill-building, job-producing green powerhouse of the industrialized world.

Fifteen per cent of Germany's electricity now comes from renewable energy systems. Scheer predicts that, if his country continues on this course, that number could be 100 per cent by 2030.

In The Gospel of Green, the Fifth Estate's Bob McKeown travels to Germany to meet Scheer and find out how this green miracle has been accomplished. What he finds is a man with an evangelist's fervour and economist's drive for practical applications.

It was Germany's renewable energy act — now known as Scheer's Law — that launched the country as a world leader in green power.

He first proved it could work, ten years ago, when he promised to install solar panels on 100,000 homes, offering contracts that paid a premium to the homeowner for the electricity produced by the panels. Even Greenpeace thought that too ambitious, but Scheer finished the project a year early.

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