What is Energy Seeds?
Energy Seeds is a project of the Foundation for Environmental Education. A “blog” is a web log of journal entries. This Energy Seeds blog will contain journal entries and stories about a number of projects that we have worked on over the past few years. It is intended to stimulate and catalyze new energy and environmental project ideas that build on our projects. One of the ways in which we can do that is to provide you more than just the numbers and the data from each project. This site will provide you with the background on each project, the “behind-the-scenes” stories, and the thoughts, advice and contacts for the people who were involved in each project. Often, for example, we will provide stories from a number of people from each project including the principal, the teachers, and many of the students who will describe their project from their own perspective. We are hoping that our projects will help you do your own projects, or to join us in our future projects. It is our plan to then help you to share the vision of your projects on this site as well. We are planting the first “seeds” here with the launch of this blog site and we hope you will join us.
Here are a few of our energy seeds, which we’ll share more about in future posts:
We hope this site, or at least a few project ideas herein, will encourage more people to want to harness their own piece of the sun. We hope to create a self-sustaining market place of ideas, and everyone can play a role in the team. This is why we go to such long lengths to introduce you to both the projects and the people who are responsible for them.
We know there are a number of grave predictions for the planet. Half of the experts predict an end to the natural world if we remain on our present course while the other half outline the destruction of the world economy if we make even small changes in how we generate and use energy. We believe there are less extreme options, and we hope to show you some of the opportunities available to all of us. One seed, alone, if planted well, may help change the course of our history. Harnessing the sun in a more productive manner may help us sustain the lifestyle we enjoy while also putting a little less pressure on the planet.
Though we all may not know it right now, we each have a seed to plant, and each have a seed to sow…we all don’t have to start out as expert farmers, but we all can learn and grow. Come back, and share your story with us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Glen and Alyssa 