Credit Where It's Due on Wind Power

As the business world takes over leadership on addressing global climate change, credit will always be due to a stalwart group of nonprofit leaders who toiled on the issue for decades.

I thought of Paul Hawken and his now nearly 18,000 "friends" and 110,000 member green and social justice organizations of the global social network WiserEarth when I read this feature in Fortune magazine of five exciting new alternatives to wind turbines that are being researched and funded. Most of us would have never believed this was possible, but the article gives a glimpse of what is to come.

According to the article, "A new study by research firm Hillpoint Energy says that U.S. sales of wind turbines made by companies such as GE and Vestas will hit $11 billion in 2008, up 42% from last year. [Yet] while massive wind turbines dominate the industry, some entrepreneurs believe they have a better idea."

[I urge you to look at the pictures, they are really cool and it's easy to see that we are on to a new era in wind technology.]

How to connect these great entrepreneurial initiatives back to the green and social justice organizations that seeded and spawned them, now that success is at our door step, is what's on my mind. It seems there should be a dividend or a reinvestment of some kind owed. I hope others will chime in with their ideas.

Carla E. Dearing

Comments

Thanks for mentioning WiserEarth Carla. I just created a resource page for Philanthromedia.org in it along with a listing of articles from your archive: www.wiserearth.org/resource/view/08041292cab083e1a6bed48f9c540e05

Feel free to edit further and don't forget to add it to your WiserEarth network (via the "Add to network" link in the Actions box).

Would be great if we can also get your help inviting people and organizations in Philanthromedia's network to join WiserEarth and grow it to what it's intended to be: a non-commercial, always free-to-use, online get together and collaboration space for all people, communities and organizations working for justice and sustainability.

Yours in advocacy,
Bowo