Energy Independence is a nice slogan, but where is the gunfire we are supposed to march toward.

As reported recently, President-elect Obama, doesn’t think that we are going to become energy independent because we change some light bulbs.

He is right.  Energy Independence requires big picture, macro economic evolution of our energy infrastructure.

There are steps we can all take to reduce the amount of energy we waste.  Most of the greenhouse gases the world frets over comes from coal fired power plants.  The less power used, the less energy produced, the less carbon dioxide released.  This doesn’t mean decreasing our standard of living, it means using energy more efficiently.

Individual efforts to reduce energy waste can have big effects when they are all added together.

Here are some videos about how to save energy at home:

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-6-v-14.html

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-6-v-15.html

How about those phantom power loads?

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-6-v-105.html

If you want a great solution to reducing your phantom power loads by remote control, check out the GreenSwitch.

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-6-v-24.html

If you really want to make a difference, show us how you save energy so we can copy your great ideas by signing the Declaration of Endependence.

http://endependence.info/declaration/category-6.html

Energy independence at the personal, local and national level is possible.

At the personal level, the low hanging fruit is saving energy, or more accurately, wasting less energy.

Estimates are that Americans waste 30% of the energy they use.

Endependence thinks the way to harvest this energy saving fruit is to work together.  The Declaration of Endependence ( www.endependence.info/declaration ) is a place to share the way you save energy with your neighbors.

YOU CAN take some steps toward reducing your energy use.

YOU CAN share the ways you save energy with your neighbors.

WE CAN get involved with efforts in your community to address local energy challenges.

WE CAN vote for local, state and national politicians that do more than yack about energy independence.

WE CAN understand that energy independence takes the people, government and business working together, and the days of “cheap energy” are going, going, gone.

Here are some examples of the ways people are making their Declaration of Endependence.

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-141.html

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-134.html

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-148.html

Tell us how you save energy, we’ll copy your great ideas.