Dear Editor ,           

Beginning on Sunday July 7 at 7pm  and continuing every Sunday same time thereafter 'The Powerless Hour'  will occur.  The "Powerless Hour" is a time to turn off our electric power in unison.      

Currently every person who buys electric power supports the creation of more nuclear waste and at least 50% of us do not want to.  We want to support with our utility dollars renewable technologies, and we want to find out how to use less, waste less, and need less electricity. This nuclear power issue is a human rights issue, just as the importation of petroleum and its effect on our foreign policies, is a similar issue for many citizens.

Yet this is a problem that can be overcome with will and collective effort . Fossil and nuclear fuels are not the only way, we have never put our back into retrofitting our nation in a sustainable way. We have never had the financial support that the nuclear industry has had. Try to imagine what this country would look like if every dollar spent in nuclear to date were instead invested in renewable and wasteless designs. Imagine what our position would be worldwide. Imagine being respected rather then feared. Lets go there.

A coordinated shut-off of electricity during the Powerless Hour will deeply effect the grid , all the  moreso as more people join.  Lets make this a nationwide consolidation of greenpeople - people who want a beautiful world to be a thing of the future.

We can make the 'Powerless Hour' a nationwide coordination, continuing until such time as the amount of money that is thrown away to nonsustainable technologies- fossil and nuclear - is instead redirected to renewables. So please pass it around , in every way - by word and letter to the editor, to every end of the nation,  and by this time next year we may be at a better juncture to get the energy future of this country on the right track - a track that can actually lead somewhere.  Starting Sundays 7/7 at 7pm, simply shut off  power wherever you are for the Powerless Hour  to  forge out the rights that we need to respect the Earth. To that end - Long live the Powerless Hour !
 

Sincerely,
Emily Peyton
Putney VT