Our Home, Our Planet
Solar energy was used by humans during the 7th century B.C. History tells us that humans used sunlight to light fires with magnifying glass materials.
In 1832, Scottish Inventor Robert Anderson made the first crude electric vehicle, some 50 years before the first patent for a gas-powered car was issued to Carl Benz.
In 2003, The Mars Program, led by NASA, launched two Rovers into the red planet. They were named Opportunity and Spirit. They both arrived on the last terrestrial planet in our solar system in roughly 8 months. While Spirit had a good run of about 7 years, Opportunity shared its last image with Earth some 15 years after its launch. The rovers were solar-powered.
Today, Tesla is the richest automaker in America.
Evolution isn’t linear, even if it seems so. In reality, we take two strokes forward, and one backward.
I have hope that we humans realize that we need to get our shit together because the Earth, much like us, has an expiration date and is limited with its available resources.
Although it’s nearly impossible to be 100% green, there are things we can do. Below are a few easy practices my wife and I adopted:
- Limiting the use of harmful plastics. We started using glass jars to store almost everything we own, eliminated ziplock bags, and…
