Mother Earth is crying in pain, and we need to stand up and take heed. No, not every person who looks at the environment and realizes that something needs to be done is a radical 60s leftover or activist. Some of us are scientists and engineers who see these issues as presenting a challenge - and the old school attitudes that told us conservatives to "forget the environment" were simply voices of those who lacked faith in the collective intelligence and skill of the scientific and engineering communities.
Every day, a new company is formed that promises to dramatically shift our dependence on foreign oil and overall energy consumption - which provides one step towards healing the earth by eliminating the need for offshore drilling, etc., not to mention reduces carbon emissions and polluted air from dirty fuels. I am a Republican and I stand with Sarah Palin for the need for offshore drilling now - but wouldn't it be nice if all our cars in the future ran on water, or electricity - and we could remove the oil rigs from the ocean ?
I say hats off to the VC firms who are funding these new and innovative companies - Mantra Energy Group in Canada, Al Gore in conjunction with Silicon Valley's own Kleiner-Perkins, and the Hudson Clean Energy funds.
We have some incredibly good ideas out there, but nothing that is cheap, clean, easy, and doesn't create an economic upset in another section (like bio fuels). Funding teams of resourceful scientists and engineers will help us find a new solution that is eluding us at present, without making Iowa corn farmers into the next generation of oil millionaires.
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