Date: September 2 2010 written by Guy McCarthy
Ronald Reagan took Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House, will Barack Obama install new ones?
A renewable energy campaign supported by solar energy activists from Unity College in the US will go on the road taking with it one of the original solar panels President Jimmy Carter installed on the White House in 1979. Bill McKibbon, founder of the website 350.org, is leading this campaign as a challenge to Barack Obama to install back solar panels in the white house. Apparently Ronald Reagan took the solar panels off as well as removed government incentives for renewable energy projects in the US.
McKibbon says, “We wasted 31 years when we could, across America, have been using the sun’s heat. We wasted our technological lead in the most important industry of the future, and handed it instead to countries like China. Now’s the moment to start catching up.” He wants Obama to install solar panels on the white house on October 10th as part of a Global Work Party day, when people around the world will work on climate solutions.
“Solar panels on the White House will remind every visitor to Washington that every roof in America should have solar panels for electricity and hot water on them. The President’s panels will do as much good as the wonderful organic garden that the First Lady planted on the South Lawn,” McKibbon said.
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