The U.S. House of Representatives has finally passed climate
change legislation, but the national debate on this issue continues
to be based on a false assumption: that any major reforms will
inevitably take decades to make a serious dent in greenhouse
gas pollution.
 

The latest figures from the Energy Information Administration  
show that net U.S. electrical generation from renewable energy
sources (biomass, geothermal, solar, water, wind) reached an
all-time monthly high in May 2009. Combined, those sources
accounted for 13 percent of total electrical generation in the
U.S., according to recent analysis from the Washington, D.C.-
based Sun Day Campaign.
 
More specifically, Sun Day reports that renewable sources

Rock Port, MO - As energy costs go up, we're all looking for ways to save money. Just down I-29, an entire town takes action and risks on a power supply right outside their back door. Someday, it may be a money-saver.
 
Look down the road on this Rock Port farm, you'll see the spinning shadows over the corn fields. Look up and see the giant blades that power the town.
 
"It's the way to go with electricity as far as I can see," Steve Scamman says.
 

Surrounded by a cornfield and trees sits one of the state’s newer power plants.
 
There are no telltale signs of a power plant — no long lines of railroad cars filled with coal, no cooling towers releasing steam clouds, no smokestacks or big transformers.
 
As the sun grows the corn, it also makes power on the roof of a metal building — anywhere from 150 to 750 kilowatt hours per day, or enough to meet the needs of 15 typical houses.
 

A San Diego start-up says it is using algae to make oil that can be refined into gasoline and other fuels that are both renewable and carbon-neutral, and it plans to produce 10,000 barrels a day within five years.
 
That's a fraction of the 20 million or so barrels of petroleum the United States consumes each day, but Sapphire Energy says "green crude" production could ramp up to a level sufficient to ease our dependence on foreign oil, if not end it altogether.