Forget 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' to Save the Planet; Let's Just Electrify Everything!
New approaches to a sustainable planet.
If you are like me and get mad at yourself when you forget to bring the reusable bag from the car to the grocery store, or when you watch the next door neighbor drive her Ford F-350 truck five miles back and forth to the grocery store, alone averaging 10 mpg, then you are really going to enjoy today’s article.
The article below discusses that we should forget ‘reduce, reuse, recycle,’ and instead create a policy to electrify everything. Then power this electricity with 100 percent renewable carbon free approaches such as wind, power and nuclear.
“‘Electrify everything’ quite literally means electrify everything we do. Electrify our vehicles. Electrify our homes, including the kitchen, the laundry, the basement, the attic, and the garage. Electrify our small businesses and commercial buildings. Electrify our industrial processes.”
-Saul Griffith in an interview with The Atlantic
Like any good new approach to solving the problem of carbon emissions, the devil is in the details. Saul Griffith, entrepreneur and author of Electrify Everything, doesn’t disappoint in outlining how to get there and why it just might be the way to solve the problem and create abundance for all with a much cheaper cost. Griffith touches on all the issues and answers the question if technology is ready to solve this problem today. (Hint: It is!)
Take a look at Griffith’s interview with The Atlantic and see if you agree. You will want to read his book and maybe, just maybe, have all of us push for this innovative policy solution, which creates energy in a better way than we have now and keeps us all from fighting each other for fossil fuel resources.
See you next issue…
Best, Craig
P.S. Would love to hear your comments or suggestions.