| Statistics show that the United States still derives 90% | | | | buildings. Although installation is indeed more expensive |
| of its electricity from pollutants such as coal and | | | | than simply buying power from utility companies, the |
| nuclear power plants. Coal-burning power plants are | | | | benefits you can derive from it shall be all worth it in no |
| the country's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, a | | | | time. |
| greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere | | | | A cheaper alternative to solar power is wind power. |
| causing global warming. Coal is also responsible for | | | | Many people are now starting to install do-it-yourself |
| several other health risks such as asthma attack and | | | | windmills in their homes to generate enough electricity |
| other lung ailments. It worsens the decade-long | | | | for their homes, ranches, and farms. Windmills, after all, |
| environmental problems that we still fail to address | | | | are age-old artifacts used extensively to grind grain |
| nowadays. | | | | and pump water. Renewable sources of energy can |
| The federal government expects the country to cut | | | | be best obtained if you are in a windy location. This |
| down on our reliance to coal power by providing at | | | | can save you a lot of electricity and the utility |
| least 20% of our electricity from renewable sources | | | | company will even pay you back. Denmark, Spain, |
| of energy by 2020. Every household should commit | | | | Portugal and the Great Britain are utilizing wind farm to |
| their fair share of responsibility on the worsening case | | | | power large portions of their communities. Modern-day |
| of environmental degradation the United States has | | | | wind turbines have been installed elsewhere in the |
| done to the planet. There has to be a way to tap | | | | United States as well. |
| renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, | | | | The earth's core also emits useful renewable energy. |
| geothermal and biomass to lessen our dependence on | | | | The heat it produces can be greater than 9,000 |
| coal and nuclear power as well as oil and gas. | | | | degrees Fahrenheit. This heat finds its way closer to |
| A good start would be utilizing the power of the sun. | | | | the earth's surface making it easy for us to harness its |
| Man has been harnessing this energy since time | | | | steam, thus, what we now call geothermal energy. |
| immemorial. It's just ironic that this technology has not | | | | Some of the country's electricity is powered by |
| been tapped earlier. Now that there's a real need to | | | | geothermal plants. But we can also use the energy |
| convert the sun's energy to electricity, it is high time | | | | from the underground directly by installing geothermal |
| that this good technology be put into good use. Solar | | | | heat pumps to generate home heating and cooling |
| power can be one of the most cost-effective | | | | provisions for our family. |
| renewable sources of energy but a little investment on | | | | The days of pollution emission and skyrocketing oil |
| solar panels and generators is needed. The | | | | prices are here and now. We made this situation for |
| repercussions, however, are easily determined once | | | | ourselves and it is only us who can reverse it. By |
| homes are powered with solar energy. Solar panels | | | | harnessing the power that our ancestors first known |
| that are created nowadays can easily adapt with the | | | | of, the question of a sustainable future should not be a |
| architectural design of modern-day homes and office | | | | far fetched notion. |