Alternative Enrgy Sources

HI EVERYBODY!!

I am going to talk a little more about my skype-exchanges. In my last skype exchange I spoke with another young women from Tulane University: Sarah. We spoke about an interesting topic: renewable sources of energy. It was a really interesting conversation; we talked almost one hour about how our countries face the problem of alternative energy sources. She told me that in the US the government is not investing a lot on renewable sources of energy because of the economic interests of some big oil companies. I replied her that it is quite the same situation in Italy. Unfortunately, the partnership between political and economic power slows down the development of alternative energy sources.

In my opinion it is really important that people start to develop the consciousness of the importance of preserving and protecting the environment since a very young age. For this reason it is advisable that schools develop some courses about environmental problems and alternative sources of energy so that in the futute people will be able to manage environmental policies better that our politicians are doing now.

In Italy renewable sources of energy are not exploited as they should be; however, some Italian regions are showing a common interest in starting developing the consciousness towards the potentiality of alternative sources of energy. The following are some examples:

Veneto and Piemonte are promoting the transformation of wooden biomasses into energy;

Lombardia is exploiting manure as an extraordinary energy reserve;

Trentino Alto Adige has the greatest photovoltaic installation.

Undoubtedly, these initiatives represent only little steps but they are really important in order to start developing the consciousness of saving energy and using environmental-friendly energy sources. I think that everyone should develop the consciousness of not wasting energy and use energy sources in a more responsable way.

(Source of the picture: http://www.re-energy.ca/images/reenergyindex_r3_c2.jpg)

That's all for the moment
bye bye
Francesca