Falling oil demand puts pressure to reduce oil prices. In a long term economic down turn, demand may continue to be sluggish, and prices may continue in deflationary mode.

Perhaps more to the point, an economic down turn will likely put pressure on consumers to “go green” for economic rather than ideological reasons. In other words, if its green but does not save me money, I ain’t buying (unless coerced by government). And never underestimate the power of short term thinking over long.

Some green products will succeed wildly. But if its a choice between my tree and a cold house, I’m going to burn the tree to stay warm.

Affiliates may need to discriminate between green products to make a profit.

Hey, hows about encouraging farmers to get into creating electricity by putting solar panels on their barns, equipment sheds and hay sheds? Or maybe using that courner where nothing much ever grew to “plant” windmills? Not only could they reduce their own electricity bills, they could sell their new harvest to their electrical providers and have a new income stream just like internet marketers do.

Loads of possiblilties for encouraging your town or city to look at constructing their own solar panel “farm” where they can produce their own electricity. The scientists tell us that Canada gets about 5.2 hours of light strong enough to power most of Canada all year round, so even on over cast days or foggy days, as in you need to wear sunglasses to be comfortable out of doors, there is probably enough daylight energy to produce electricity to power things like your computer, printer, TV game boxes, and/or your lights. You can also build small portable solar panels that you can take in your motor homes, and to the lakeside cabin or ski cabin. If there is enough sunlight to give you a sunburn, chances are there is enough to power your computer so you can check your stats or e-mail your list to upload some photos of your great day!

Lobby the government, both state, province and federal to make funds available for research into better ways to store electricity in those electric cars or develop new motors. Tires produce energy as they go round and round, there has to be a way and someone has the ability to develope these ideas into something that works we just need to find and encourage these people to work on their ideas!

I’ve noticed our electricity bill go down significantly since then, so it’s definitely worth it!

I think most people will make incremental changes in their lives as they learn more how specific changes will be to their benefit. Some will jump in for their own ethics reasons but many will make the changes as they see how changing something is in their own interest.

I have always believed if the dedicated Eco crusaders spent more time finding solutions that people can put in their lives and educating businesses on specific ways they can profit by providing Eco and green solutions instead of filing lawsuits all of this would be much further along by now.

Awesome. Good to see you on board. Now is definitely the time… great to see that government is finally going beyond the rhetoric of the last 40 years.

(Quick tip for your site… change your font from the bold red to a more readable black, no bold, Verdana or arial ).

Cheers,
Ros