May you have a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Here are some suggested new year’s resolutions.

1. Weatherize and insulate your home.
2. Build new buildings for very high energy efficiency.
3. Use public transportation, bicycling and walking as modes of daily transport.
4. Help create a food system that uses far less energy (which means primarily organic) and builds rather than depletes the soil (which can become a place to store large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere).
5. Move toward local and regional manufacturing (relocalization as it is commonly called) to reduce the need for freight transportation.
6. Move away from the consumer economy which prioritizes consumption and planned obsolescence toward an economy which prioritizes durability, repair and recycling.
7. Schedule electricity use to accommodate the daily cycles that renewables are likely to exhibit.