I end my Dwell blog with the very first photo I uploaded on the zHome blog. This is a picture of my niece. She is a budding gymnast and gardener, and loves cats. We all put so much love and time and money into growing our next generation. Yet we have such a disjunct when it comes to the state we’re going to leave the planet in for them. We will spend tens of thousands of hours nurturing our kids, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars for their education, but any decent climate scientist or oceanographer will tell you that unless things change basic planetary systems will be fundamentally different in their lifetime, let alone their kids’. Do we put as much energy, money, and time into leaving an intact planet as we do other things? We’ve got the tools—let’s act.  Photo 7 of 7 in A Zero-Energy Community: Final Post

A Zero-Energy Community: Final Post

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I end my Dwell blog with the very first photo I uploaded on the zHome blog. This is a picture of my niece. She is a budding gymnast and gardener, and loves cats. We all put so much love and time and money into growing our next generation. Yet we have such a disjunct when it comes to the state we’re going to leave the planet in for them. We will spend tens of thousands of hours nurturing our kids, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars for their education, but any decent climate scientist or oceanographer will tell you that unless things change basic planetary systems will be fundamentally different in their lifetime, let alone their kids’. Do we put as much energy, money, and time into leaving an intact planet as we do other things? We’ve got the tools—let’s act.