#21 - Pure Power

Knocked #21 off the list - signed up for the Pure Power program with AmerenUE, my local electricity company. Costs me $15 per month, which they use to buy renewable energy certificates. And while the program itself might not be perfect (there's high overhead), it is at least a start, and a monetary "vote" that consumers (well, at least this one) will support the higher costs of switching over to more sustainable energy sources. In my mind it is better to make a gradual transition rather than a jarring dislocation to a post-oil economy. Whenever I think about that I always think about Cliff Robertson at the end of Three Days of The Condor.

Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!