It's so hip to be green! The problem is you have to be super resourceful and rich to be green right now. I wanted to start blogging about being green because I truly think it's going to be a revolution that changes our daily life: the food we buy, our kids' toys, how we get to work (do we really need to go somewhere?), what our jobs are, how we buy our energy and the type of energy we buy.
Why is this blog called Green is the new Internet? I was inspired by Nancy Floyd, who delivered a very concise speech on renewable energy and economic policy at the Democratic National Convention in August, 2008. My favorite part of her speech:
"Let me put it this way. Green technology is where the computer industry was in 1984, the year the Macintosh computer was introduced. Think about how far we've come since then. That's how far-reaching and how transformational green technology will be. Thousands of new companies. Millions of new jobs. In fact, investments in wind and solar technologies have already created 2.4 million jobs."
And so, Floyd confirmed what I was already thinking: green IS the new Internet. I really wanted to follow the movement since the last time I was this excited about a potential cultural phenomenon it was 1996, I was out in San Francisco and I wanted to create a website to share stories, pictures, and gossip with my friends. Although I don't work at facebook, I do work in social media at CarePages and I'd like to spend some of my free time looking ahead to the next industry that has the potential to make meaningful, postive, and sweeping changes in our lives.
Why is this blog called Green is the new Internet? I was inspired by Nancy Floyd, who delivered a very concise speech on renewable energy and economic policy at the Democratic National Convention in August, 2008. My favorite part of her speech:
"Let me put it this way. Green technology is where the computer industry was in 1984, the year the Macintosh computer was introduced. Think about how far we've come since then. That's how far-reaching and how transformational green technology will be. Thousands of new companies. Millions of new jobs. In fact, investments in wind and solar technologies have already created 2.4 million jobs."
And so, Floyd confirmed what I was already thinking: green IS the new Internet. I really wanted to follow the movement since the last time I was this excited about a potential cultural phenomenon it was 1996, I was out in San Francisco and I wanted to create a website to share stories, pictures, and gossip with my friends. Although I don't work at facebook, I do work in social media at CarePages and I'd like to spend some of my free time looking ahead to the next industry that has the potential to make meaningful, postive, and sweeping changes in our lives.
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