The document discusses various technologies and solutions related to clean energy and the transition to renewable sources, including solar power, geothermal, wave energy, electric vehicles, and biomass. It notes the economic and environmental benefits of investing in these areas, such as reduced costs, job growth, and decreased emissions. However, it also examines political and economic factors that have prevented more widespread adoption of these solutions, such as opposition from fossil fuel industries and politicians dependent on these industries. It argues that transforming society into a true democracy focused on sustainability, rather than a "corporatocracy" prioritizing profit, is necessary to fully realize a transition to clean energy and a greener economy.

1. Culture in Decline?
12-12-12
Technology and the transition to
clean energy

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

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
http://www.un-energy.org/
@Energy
3rd Industrial Revolution
Declaration

5. What is preventing the
transition?

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

7. 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.
Corporatocracy
Law of Mother Earth
Kyoto Treaty
UNFCC

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