The document discusses the transition to clean energy and sustainable technologies. It provides examples of innovative clean energy technologies and summarizes benefits of investing in solar energy research, including a triple return on investment, 50% reduction in solar costs, and significant emissions reductions. However, it notes that political and economic factors have prevented a full transition, with politicians influenced by fossil fuel industries resisting climate policies due to perceived economic threats. It calls for governments and citizens to transform systems from a corporatocracy to a true democracy that supports well-being and sustainability.

1. Culture in Decline?
Technology and the transition to
clean energy
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2. Solutions the media and general public tend to ignore:
Electric Car Facts
Trend-Setter Corn=Energy
US Energy Map
Solar Engine Wave Energy
Biomass
Geothermal Map Clean, Efficient Sustainability
Solar Everything
Milwaukee Brewing Energy!
Solar Energy and Jobs
Thermoelectric Material
Chef Solar
Gravity-Powered Lamp Clean Incentives
Road Fuel Efficiency
Meeting the Demand
Innovative Energy Technologies

3. How Solar Energy Benefits us and our
planet; The Energy Department’s Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Pros:
Triple Return on Investment: From 1975 to 2008, the Energy Department
spent about $2.3 billion on R&D to advance PV technology, with net
economic benefits totaling more than $15 billion with a conservatively-
estimated 17 percent internal rate of return.
50 Percent Cost Reduction: Since the Energy Department began investing
in solar research development and deployment, production costs per watt of
photovoltaic (PV) modules fell from more than $100 in the mid-1970s to
between $1 and $2 per watt by 2008 with system reliability increasing from 2
to 25 years during this same period.
Significant Emission Reduction: About 6.8 million tons of CO2 emissions
were avoided, with approximately 1.1 million tons of those emissions directly
attributable to EERE‟s investments.
Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Energy Department support of early
solar PV research led to foundational knowledge that drives today‟s private
sector innovation, including an estimated 274 patent families.
Innovation Spillover: Over time, the influence of Energy Department-funded
thin film PV research has spread extensively to the broader semiconductor
device industry.

4. Transition to the 3rd Industrial Revolution
Mission Statement
Collaborative Effort
Declaration
3rd Industrial Revolution
@Energy
http://www.un-energy.org/

5. What is preventing the
transition?

6. Breaking the impasse in the international climate negotiations: The potential of
green technologies
“The Bush administration, supported by traditional energy
“A study by a California-based concerns and large manufacturing industries, portrayed the
research firm, Collaborative Kyoto Protocol as a flawed regime that would be costly in
Economics, found that there had terms of jobs and harmful for economic growth were the
been a 36% increase in jobs in the United States to join it.”
green economy between 1995
and 2008, far higher than the 13% “Politicians from states with large coal, oil, manufacturing,
overall job growth rate in and/or agricultural industries, regardless of party affiliation,
California during this time (Schmit, have been inclined to vote against climate legislation
2009).” because they see it as a threat to their state‟s economy
and jobs.”
“A study organized by the Pew Charitable
Trusts found that nationally, jobs in the „„Governments have a huge role. With the right
clean energy sector grew at a rate of policies and a global framework, we can generate
9.1% between 1998 and 2007, far higher economic growth and steer it in a low-carbon
than the rate of growth in traditional jobs direction, not unlike Roosevelt‟s original New Deal.
(3.7%).” Handled properly, our efforts to cope with the financial
crisis can reinforce our efforts to combat climate
change. In today‟s crisis lies tomorrow‟s opportunity
“In a wake-up call to the United States, the — economic opportunity, measured in jobs and
report also notes that over 85% of the market growth.‟‟(Ki-Moon,2008).
for clean energy technologies is outside of the
United States (Pew Center, 2011).”
Our Good Friend Fox News

7. UNFCC
Kyoto Treaty
Are there more people making strides in
clean energy and a sustainable society
compared with the small percentage of
elitists, CEO‟s and politicians promoting
profit and power? It is up to you and I to
transform this CORPORATOCRACY to
an actual DEMOCRACY for the well-
being of all species and our 1 and only
finite planet.
Law of Mother Earth
Corporatocracy

8. Surviving Progress
Prophets of Doom Episode (The Futurists)
The Zeitgeist Movement