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Will President Obama bring solar panels back to the whitehouse?

We may not all remember but President Jimmy Carter was a visionary in advocating alternative energy by bringing solar panel to the white house back in 1979.  President Reagan did the [now] unthinkable and removed them.

While President Obama clearly and ludly supports the green movement, we have yet to hear of his energy savings plan for the white house.  Sungevity which leases home solar systems is offering to install a solar system at the White House for no more than zero cent.

In pushing the envelope even further, Sungevity is also offering to lease the entire system to the government of the people for the low price of $537.  Assuming my math is correct and using the estimated population of 307,006,550 U.S. residents, that’s $6,444 annually or about $.000021 per U.S. resident per year.

Ronald Reagan may have lacked judgment in ordering the solar panels removed, but Obama can start leading by example in the fight against global warming.

Sungevity has already taken the first step with its offer and writing to the President and First Lady [see letter here] and started the Globama initiative.

Let’s bring solar energy back to the White House.  Let’s lend our support by signing the petition.

Worried that you may not have lived a green life or that your decomposing body, and coffin materials sipping in the ground may be more bad treatment that the planet deserves. Well, worry no more.

After a lifetime of trashing the planet or taking of it, one can now satisfy his desire to remain green in the afterlife thanks to alkaline hydrolysis also referred to as resomation.

Alkaline hydrolysis not only reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 90%, it also uses less energy than conventional cremation. The water-based process can rapidly reduce the human body to ashes.

Although safer to the environment – no mercury is spewed into the atmosphere – this process does not come without its share of controversy. For example, the Catholic Church strongly opposes the process, stating this is not a respectful way to dispose of corpses. However, Christiannity, Judaism and Islam in the past have all been strongly opposed to cremation though it has now become accepted in many of these circles.

However, with a third of Americans and half of the Canadian population now opting for cremation, and more green-conscious citizens, resomation is poised to enjoy some noticeable success.

But let’s not start trashing the planet yet just because we can be green in the afterlife.