The boys are smart, but the girls are smarter.
School number 11, St. Petersburg, Russia
Chapter One introduced us to two interweaving themes: wind turbines and children. Chapter Two introduced us to a book about the major changes coming to your neighborhood in the near future.
Chapter Three shall introduce us to the global classroom that our children will need, with a curriculum based on clean energy engineering, clean energy economics, clean energy law, and other courses designed to lift us from the dark ages of oil to the renaissance of global cooperation, as together we weave a democratic web of clean energy. From these innovative courses, and from this growing web, shall we fashion a growing peace.
If you think that I am overly optimistic, let me refer you to a daily online newspaper about clean energy around the world. Recharge, at http://www.rechargenews.com/ , with its main office in Oslo, features daily articles about progress--fairly steady, deeply motivated progress--in the making of electricity from the wind, from the sun, from biomass, waves and currents, and the heat deep in the Earth.
Take a look at Recharge while you drink your first cup of coffee in the morning: start your day with the news that the countries in northern Europe are in the early stages of building a modern "supergrid", which will reach from Irish offshore wind turbines in the west to the turbines of nine other countries to the east. The supergrid means jobs. The supergrid means vibrant international cooperation among trade schools and universities. It will create a whole new neighborhood.
Or read about the solar project, also in the early stages, which will place a growing number of solar collectors in the deserts of north Africa. These solar generators will provide a growing amount of electricity to African schools, medical clinics, and businesses, with enough power left over to send by cable across the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to southern Europe. Moroccan sunshine shall power a French computer.
Such a solar project means jobs. It means international schools that will provide an education which prepares students for a lifetime career in clean energy. Schools that will provide an education in justice. And in peace.
Start your day with thoughts about What We Could Do, if we would only do it.
John Slade
Woodgate International
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