Greetings from twenty-first-century Europe, where new ideas, new technologies, and better ways of living are flourishing
It’s a real pity, Gesine Bänfer wanted us to know, that we couldn’t have visited her daughter’s kindergarten at the end of last week. This scene was fine and all, she conceded: The building a low-slung, primary-coloured series of attached, self-contained classroom units, each with its own patio and garden, like a row of holiday condos. Vines hanging from trellises for shade. The sloped roof tiled in solar panels. A communal cob oven out here in the rear courtyard where the kids learn to bake. Gleeful German five-year-olds streaming out the main entrance — there was Gesine’s daughter Stevie now — and onto automobile-free streets, strolling toward their ultra-efficient, mostly solar-heated homes, there to munch on exquisite Brötchen from the neighbourhood bakery and continue the process, evidently already under way, of evolution onto a higher plane of existence.
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LS » As a Canadian I know that our drunk-on-oil conservative prime minister from Alberta is going to be totally useless at guiding us towards a future of sustainable energy but perhaps the guy to the south of us can help in that regard. It won’t be easy for him, there is a huge drunk-on-oil contingent in the US but perhaps the BP oil leak (um, geyser) disaster will give Obama the impetus to make the quest for sustainable energy the focus of the American people (biz and gov) until the job is complete. Sort of like the Manhattan Project during WWII.
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