Over a dozen local business officials flew to Washington on Wednesday to meet with Florida lawmakers, urging them to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate change policies.
John Ferrari is with DwellGreen, a Sarasota based company that does home performance evaluations. He says the message he wants to bring to Florida Senators Bill Nelson and George LeMieux is that "the time is now and we as a country cannot wait any longer for legislation that includes a carbon cap on emissions." Ferrari charges that the U.S. is at a pivotal point when it comes to getting behind alternative energy sources, asking, "do we want to be seen as a world leader? If we don't do anything, the Chinese will carve out to be a leader on this, which would be a shame. We have all the ingredients, we just have to act."
Dan Alberts is with Conduit2Green, a St. Petersburg based company that provides energy saving, power correction, and LED lighting products to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
This article appears in Feb 3-9, 2010.
