CleanTech Is Building a New World

In a comment to a recent post, guest blogger Cameron Atwood reminds us of something Socrates told us:  “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

This has such terrific relevance here in the renewable energy / sustainability space.  There are 200,000 groups in the world today whose mission is social and environmental justice. That’s a huge amount of effort going into building a new world: new ways to generate and consume energy, new ideas in preserving our natural resources, new concepts in sustainable architecture, and so forth.  And let’s not forget private enterprise, where cleantech is growing into a $5.7 trillion per year market.

These are people who aren’t complaining; they’re simply making it happen — what a powerful lesson for all of us.