Rob Holland of CALPIRG Students announced today that the University of California system will be investing in renewable solar energy.
This move towards solar across the ten campuses will reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG) by around 72,000 metric tons. This huge reduction will be a tiny step in the right direction of reducing GHG and retarding Global Climate Change, which has already had visible, tangible impacts on our home state.
Some of these impacts include the fact that we are in the third year of the worst drought in recorded history, and subsequently that California is now so dry that this is a massive forest fire ragin in Yosemite.
While the cost of cutting edge renewable energy technology may be daunting up front, one must wonder why we haven't made it more of a priority. After all, California is a relentlessly sunny place that, in theory, could sustain itself on renewables alone. Yet, 80% of our energy still comes from fossil fuels.
CALPIRG and the UC system are definitely making strides towards reducing our dependency on non-renewables, and hopefully other businesses and organizations will follow suit.
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