Interest Groups - Areas Being Explored

Renewable Energy/Conservation

MANY QEW SUPPORTERS are involved in solar energy, green buildings, hybrid vehicles, biofuels, wind energy, small-scale hydropower, and other paths to freeing society from its dangerous addiction to fossil fuels. Many also are attentive to details of their lives that reduce their consumption of energy and other resources.

However, for most of us this is not a question of finding technological substitutes to maintain our current high-consumption lifestyles. We are also exploring the spiritual, psychological, and philosophical implications of the ways we obtain and use energy, such as the effect of huge, centralized power systems on personal freedoms, and the problem of alienation from the cycles and rhythms of nature when energy is experienced as nothing more than a commodity that flows with the flick of a switch or with the squeeze of a gasoline pump handle.

Information about this QEW interest area and the Friends who are trying to change their relationships to energy will be posted here in the future. Please check back later.