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Dr. Donald Aitken ( http://www.donaldaitkenassociates.com/ ), physicist, solar architect and former lead scientist at the Union of Concerned of Concerned Scientists, talks about his certainty that we have all the tools and knowhow to make the shift to renewable energy sources right now.

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Renewable energy payments or feed-in tariffs create jobs by creating a market for renewable green energy. Homeowners and businesses can install renewable energy systems and then sign a contract with their local electricity utility to puchase all of the energy. The purcahse rate is usually four to seven times higher than the rate charged by the utility. This is a set rate on a long term contract of approximately 20 years. This allows the homeowner or business to determine the exact payback time for the e renewable energy system. This also helps create distrributed electricity generation which increases the resilience of the electricity grid. In German, this plan has created over 400,000 jobs in the renewable energy industry, and is making Germany the fastest implementation of renewable energy in the world. This job creation system is now under consideration in Michigan, which currently has an over 12% unemployment rate

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http://www.citizen.org A film by R.J. Somerville, a student in the Digital Media Department of FIDM.

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In the current economy, is there people still wanting and looking for alternative energy?

With the crowd in Washington these days, it’s more of a shove at the point of a bayonet.

If they think that CO2 is a pollutant, the folks at the EPA should stop breathing. And "He who must not be named" living in the White House should stay home and not use Air Force One to go for Sunday drives.

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