Prioritize Energy Efficiency

Prioritize Energy Efficiency

The Issue

President Barack Obama has made energy policy a priority of his administration.
The American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan includes billions of tax-payer dollars for energy investment, particularly an energy "smart grid," and renewable energy tax cuts. This is a major step forward, but we must press upon President Obama and the Department of Energy to prioritize energy efficiency in particular.

The United States of America holds 5% of the world's population but we consume 24% of the world's energy. Our lifestyles revolve around consuming and wasting all day, every day. This must change before we can improve our devastating economic and environmental crises.

Encouraging energy efficiency, and providing incentives to do so, is the cheapest and fastest way for us to revolutionize our lifestyles and lessen the negative impacts on our ecosystems. We all need to do our part, personally, to lessen our collective burden on the Earth, and there are many ways to do so. But we also need to remind the Department of Energy that conservation is the first step towards energy independence.

Earthjustice has an important petition that is directed at the Department of Energy to adopt the strongest energy efficiency standards for household appliances and commercial products. "The Department of Energy is considering a new standard for fluorescent tube lights and other kinds of light bulbs that over the next three decades will save enough energy to power every household in America for an entire year, and save customers and business over $66 billion." (Earthjustice) They are urging concerned citizens to tell the DOE to prioritize energy efficiency now. Please take a moment to personalize then sign this petition to let the DOE know we must vigorously advocate conservation for the sake of our economy and our planet.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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The Issue

President Barack Obama has made energy policy a priority of his administration.
The American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan includes billions of tax-payer dollars for energy investment, particularly an energy "smart grid," and renewable energy tax cuts. This is a major step forward, but we must press upon President Obama and the Department of Energy to prioritize energy efficiency in particular.

The United States of America holds 5% of the world's population but we consume 24% of the world's energy. Our lifestyles revolve around consuming and wasting all day, every day. This must change before we can improve our devastating economic and environmental crises.

Encouraging energy efficiency, and providing incentives to do so, is the cheapest and fastest way for us to revolutionize our lifestyles and lessen the negative impacts on our ecosystems. We all need to do our part, personally, to lessen our collective burden on the Earth, and there are many ways to do so. But we also need to remind the Department of Energy that conservation is the first step towards energy independence.

Earthjustice has an important petition that is directed at the Department of Energy to adopt the strongest energy efficiency standards for household appliances and commercial products. "The Department of Energy is considering a new standard for fluorescent tube lights and other kinds of light bulbs that over the next three decades will save enough energy to power every household in America for an entire year, and save customers and business over $66 billion." (Earthjustice) They are urging concerned citizens to tell the DOE to prioritize energy efficiency now. Please take a moment to personalize then sign this petition to let the DOE know we must vigorously advocate conservation for the sake of our economy and our planet.

avatar of the starter
D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
Media inquiries

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Petition created on February 2, 2009