Descriptive Essay On Go Green

Recently, I ventured into town to have coffee at a local café. As I drove through the beautiful back roads, cascaded with homesteads and cattle farms, I noticed a field of solar panels sprawled across acres of land with sheep grazing underneath. I observed an elderly farmer walking through the field with a bucket in one hand and a walking stick in the other. He stopped and looked up at the panels then began to rattle the bucket. The sheep raised their cud chewing heads and begin to trot over to him. It was moving to see the old world meeting the new and it got me thinking about the promise of a better way of life with renewable energy. As I continued to drive, all the while getting closer to the city center, I could see the stacks of a power …show more content…
Three feet from the seating area was a storefront where fresh fruit and vegetables were on display with a sign that said “Organic Farm Grown Fresh Vegetables.” I couldn’t help but again notice that most people when they noticed the sign would immediately stop and read it. We live in a world where people are now more than ever aware of the need to “go green” and try to live in a sustainable and eco-friendly lifestyle. It has been imprinted in our generation from a young age to be more health conscious and aware. It made me smile amongst the concrete jungle to see that people instinctively were drawn to a more natural and sustainable way of …show more content…
Well that depends on how much a family would be willing to do in order to actually make lifestyle changes. If you were considering the change, what would help you? What would be the biggest reason you would not be able to do this change? Chances are that financially most are unable to disconnect from the dependency of standard energy on their own. This is where incentives and subsidies come in. Thus, allowing those who previously wouldn’t be able to make the change to actually install those solar power panels because they are getting the aid to allow it financially possible. This not only helps them by cutting down on electricity costs, but aids the community and the world as a whole. Sadly, all of this progress is now under threat as since January 2016 the tax credit has been cancelled. This poses a huge threat to the progress that has been made (Downey, 2015). While these advances are small in comparison to the production of fossil fuels, how can it be argued that renewable energy sooner or later will be the