Today, we not only celebrate President Obama’s signing of a bill that represents a significant down payment on America’s green future. We also celebrate the ideas and action of Green Americans everywhere, who over the past decades were the innovators, early adopters, and educators for the green ideas that now represent the way forward for our country.
Every time you take action for a greener future or pass along information to family and friends, you participate in the shift of ideas and values that led to today – where the whole nation is turning to the green economy for the future of the country.
Without solar energy’s early adopters, there wouldn’t be a solar industry ready for a government stimulus. Without commuters opting for mass transit over gas guzzlers, the logic of stimulating the light-rail industry wouldn’t make sense. And without people taking simple steps to make their homes more energy efficient — showing how much energy can be saved in homes everywhere — the government wouldn’t get it that putting people to work weatherization homes is a win-win-win for jobs, energy security and the