By Margie Alt, Environment America Executive Director
As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to move to the White House, it's time to get to work on the concrete plans to repower America with clean energy.
From the big cities of the coasts to the industrial heartland to our rural communities, the slumping economy is taking its toll.
We need to rebuild our economy on a sound foundation -- one that ends our dependence on oil, puts people back to work, contributes to long-term prosperity, rebuilds our communities and addresses global warming.Clean energy is the way to do it. Nationwide, we have the technology, the tools, and the know-how to use energy more wisely and to get more of our energy from clean, renewable sources.What's more, clean energy can be produced right here at home, freeing us from foreign sources of energy and creating new jobs in all sectors of the nation's economy -- after all, installing solar panels on your roof isn't a job that can be shipped overseas.But in order to see the change we need to repower our country with clean energy, we need to get started now -- even before the president-elect takes office, so that starting on day one of the new administration and new Congress, we can hit the ground running and start seeing the benefits of a clean energy economy.Will you join with us to call on President-elect Obama to do what it takes to repower America?
