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Energy, we're always hearing about ways to conserve it & transform it to fit our needs. The article "Light is the Bright IDEA for Transportation" by Josie Garth Waite, is all about conserving energy in transportation. We hear about hybrids all the time, they're a pretty common idea in our 21st century world. Yes, hybrids are modern and cool looking, best of all Eco friendly. Yet even hybrids have there downside. They cost a lot of money, especially the larger ones. Bright Automotive is the company creating the "huge" hybrid van they named IDEA.  Bright has been working on this project for a couple of years now. Back in 2008 they asked the Department of Energy for a loan of $450 million. That was before the economy started going down. During the time of the low economy Bright set aside the IDEA project for about a year or so. Finally they are picking up the IDEA, and starting to work on it. Though they have started working on the IDEA project, research analyst Jacob Grose says "even if they have the best technology around, it's a long road ahead."

I agree with many that making our planet eco friendly is essential to making sure later generations will have a world that can sustain life. The industrial revolution of the late 1800's & early 1900's started this "pollution era." Before the Industrial  Revolution we were much more agricultural as a whole. Now we depend on planes, buses,& cars for travel. For food, we depend on processed & factory created foods. We're in the process of destroying the natural resources that Earth has. We need to focus and ideas like IDEA, naturally grown foods & cleaning up the debris we have littered all over our planet. Ecologists have been working on getting this message out to us, the public, for a long time now. We need to "Save our planet." I know how cheesy and sometime annoying the Eco-fanatic slogans are, but they have some truth to them. The truth in them, is the scarines. The theories of Global Warming and the Ice Caps melting scare me. I'm afaid for later generations, we're destroying their world. My children and grandchildren will have to live in what is left. We are selfish, we're living the way we want to and not thinking of the future of the world. Will our successors know the beauty we have the opportunity to see every day? Or will the just see the piles of rubble we've left behind. I'm scared that our planet will end out looking like the Earth shown in the Disney movie Wall-e. There was nothing there except loads of trash. Does a load of trash sound like something you would like to leave your great-grandchild as a home? We need to come together and be green to save our planet.