Curt
Sommer - Green Energy
Solutions
(Independent Sales Associate 3000007831 )
Phone: 503-407-1826
Email: curt
dot sommer7
at gmail dot com
About
me
I
spent
several years in real estate appraisal after college, but became
interested in the
environmental movement while living in Boston. Who would
think
that something as mundane as recycling could change your life?
I
returned to graduate
school at Arizona
State
in
August 1994, where I became very interested in the issue of
sustainability.My
thesis
project was a feasibility study of a potential geothermal district
energy project in Mammoth Lakes, CA. It was published in the
professional journal Geothermics
in January 2003. After
completing my Masters in Geography with a specialization in Renewable
Energy, I decided to move from the desert southwest.
I had been to Portland a couple times and I liked the availability of
numerous outdoor recreation possibilities.About
two
years after moving to Portland, OR, I stumbled on the theory of 'peak
oil'; the concept that oil production for any given wrell, field,
country or
the world will ultimately reach a pinnacle, after which it begins an
inexorable decline. Production data indicates that date could
very well have been around August 2006. Please refer to the Links
page for
more information on peak oil.
How we will replace oil remains to be seen. How do
you replace the most highly concentrated and easily accessible form of
energy ever discovered by humans? After discovering that our
car culture was not truly sustainable, I began researching and learning
about how to reduce the individual's dependence on fossil fuels.
With oil prices predicted to spike in the next two to three
years
the viability of suburbia as a lifestyle will come under increasing
scrutiny. The days of commuting forty or fifty miles or more
are
essentially over.
I
try to commute by bike as
much as possible, or use the bus if I have
to but I try to avoid using the car. We have a Jetta TDI that
we sometimes run on biodiesel. In
a
sense, my interest in sustainability goes back to high school.
When my dad bought my first car for me he was very
perplexed when I opted for a Chevy Vega over a muscle car.
Not that a Vega was a great car, but I was more interested in
gas mileage than horsepower.
I think the muscle car would have made me more popular than the Vega
did, but that was thirty years ago. I've been
researching sustainability issues and renewable energy resources for
over 10 years.
Our family of three usually generates about one grocery bag of garbage
per week. We try to buy products with limited packaging and
we recycle as much as we can. We compost, grow lots of
veggies...etc. Big decisions are important but it's also the
seemingly insignificant things that can make a difference as
well.
If you have any ideas on sustainable living please feel free to share
them.
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children." Native American proverb.
Green
Energy Solutions - green
energy for a
green planet.
