Wind turbine at Point Blunt, on Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, California.
Renewable energy technology and conservation strategies offer creative solutions for environmental protection, ecological precaution, & energy redemption.
Energy flows through the world in many natural forms. Energy from wind, sunlight, water flow, and terrestrial heat sources are accessible to us through the use of relatively clean, reasonably benign, technology. Clean, renewable energy, efficiently transformed into motion, heat, and electricity, with the careful, reasoned, conservative use of natural, renewable resources, can minimize our impact on the environment.
Resources, those things we depend upon for our lives, are found everywhere. The meaning of a resource is different to everyone, and this has a lot to do with how resources are obtained and used. If natural resources are from the earth's raw materials, and organic forms, then renewable resources are natural resources recreated through various processes.
The use of resources requires energy. The use of energy and resources increases entropy. Entropy is the natural tendency for matter and energy to reach a state of uniformity and equilibrium, and become unavailable for use. Entropy, too, is considered a measure of disorder in the world. The faster we use energy and matter, the faster entropy, or disorder, grows.
The earth's healthy ecological balance depends upon our conservative use of energy and resources. Concepts of energy and natural resources require an ecological foundation. The philosophy supporting their extraction, harvest, use, and waste, must be cautious, fair, and ecologically sound, to slow the increase of entropy, for a healthy planet. The natural beauty of the earth, with its ecological complexity, is irreplaceable and sustains our lives.