Review of a presentation and film about climate change at a recent chapter meeting of the Virginia Native Plant Society. Change energy consumption habits or lose plants.
I recently attended a chapter meeting of the VA Native Plant Society that at first seemed to have nothing to do with plants or landscaping. However, the messages presented by Mark McClain, from the Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition, and the Film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America by Jeff Barrie were loud and clear.
McClain emphasized that unless energy consumers - most of us - change direction in how we obtain that energy there will not be any plants, gardens or landscapes about which to worry.
One surprising fact stressed by McClain and empasized by the film is that the southeastern states of the United States use more electricity than any other section of the country.
