Comments on: Italian Town Runs On 100% Renewable Power

By: Thomas | Electric Car

Thomas | Electric Car — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:01:55 +0000

Never thought that italy owns such a progressive town. I love the aspect that this town goes beyond the ecological energy production. The efforts in reducing waste and purifying the water in a “green” way are a further step into the right direction!!!

I´m going to visit this town!!!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:52:13 +0000

Great. We are heading to a saner future.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:27:20 +0000

Just imagine what could be done by a huge country with great resources! Our own limitations here in the US are purely political. It’s good to see we are finally moving forward once again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:31:02 +0000

Yes – very true. Not even close to Varese. And much smaller. Mmm. The heading of the article is what’s wrong, or at least the first line of the main text…

By: Costanza

Costanza — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:48:19 +0000

ok, people, please stop calling it just “varese”
Its name is “varese ligure” and the “ligure” is there because there’s a bigger town called Varese. Unfortunately, that town isn’t 100% eco.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:37:36 +0000

Actually Andrew, some of us did understand that…

(North) America’s a great place with great people and great eco-projects. We need you in this too!

We Europeans understand sarcasm perfectly as we invented it

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:43:50 +0000

All of you Europeans must not understand sarcasm. Joe was emphasizing how many Americans consider the country modern, when in fact a small town in Italy exceeds all of America with regards to renewable energy. He was making fun of his own country.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:55:11 +0000

Ian -

For sure. The thing is, people have a habit of using threads to, sometimes, poke at each-other. Such a waste of time.
I would like to be optimistic about all of this but I’m not. We have been badly trained and are far too used to wasting instead of conserving, too used to pointing the finger and too much in the habit of thinking there is nothing to be done on an individual basis. Americans AND Europeans are consumers and live in a high-consumption society. That’s very difficult to change.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:05:15 +0000

I would like to add that instead of attacking each other over what probably wasn’t intended in a negative way, but what appear to be just complimentary comments in actual fact, and whether or not one’s geography is up to scratch, we ought to focus on what IS important: The planet!
When one talks about eco villages, and the skill and know-how in setting up and running them, the US follows Scandinavia, and in many respects leads the UK (where I am). However, each country has its merits in the environmental camp, and we should all work together and exchange our knowledge – which we do, but need to do more. ‘Modern’ day society is backward in many ways, when it’s so out of touch with nature. It works against nature rather than with it. We have much to learn from the many indigenous peoples of this world. We ought to listen intently to how they live, and marry this with technology of our societies in an appropriate way. If planned properly, and from an environmental impact stance, instead of big business profits first, then we can all crack this together.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:38:57 +0000

Well, I’m off to live there in July. For good. My sister’s there already and I have the whole plan sorted

Don’t be hard on Joe. I don’t think he meant any harm. We (Europeans) are too quick to condemn North Americans for voting an idiot twice. Look What Italians voted three times. B O visited a turbine factory on the first day of his term in office. Burluscrappy went to a beauty parlour.