In order to ensure the continual development of clean and sufficient energy, the best method is collaboration from across the community. Recently my mother's agency was recognized by the White House with an award for the Champion of Change. Her work used crowd funding to fund the purchase and installation of solar panels that provide sufficient energy for her entire agency. Interestingly, she did not earn the award for the installation of the solar panels, any company can independently fund an investment for this. What the award was for was the idea of using crowd funding. Crowd funding is the idea that large groups of people agree to invest some small sum of money into a venture, if enough people invest that it is funded than the venture proceeds, if not everyone who invested gets their money back. What makes the situation unique is that it was completely enacted through the community, the project raised awareness and promoted the idea of green energy across the congregation of investment. It's a progression of society towards the improvement rather than an individual.  If we work together it is incredible what we can get done. It is best to continue the development of clean energy as a community.

I agree with your statement that working together is the best way to approach clean energy development. If we want to make a change in our world, universal compliance and contribution is necessary; however, this is much easier said than done. I’ve found that as a community, we are very resistant to change, especially if this means any inconvenience or significant effort on the part of the individual. Unless everyone is able to fully understand the importance of our rising climate crisis, people will feel unmotivated to make change. Additionally, as a community we tend to ignore any issues that seem “bigger than life.” Many people acknowledge our climate problems, but insist that climate change won’t directly affect them, and thus they have no responsibility to fix the problem. I think that before we can reach unity, we must better educate the world on the significance of climate change and express to them the importance in making changes to fix our planet.