Still wit our people is the most problem;
Everybody who is environmentally minded be supposed to be thinking about green power especially with the diminution of fossil fuels being imminent.
Sideways from the fact that we are purely running out of them and the price is becoming exorbitant, fossil fuels pollute the environment and there is just no pardon to be rely on them going forward.
Green energy sources are a much better bet for the future. Energy from these resources is sustainable and renewable – things like the water, the wind in the sun will never run dry and if we use them correctly and dependably we can be confident to have an unlimited supply of energy that will not destroy our environment.

your advocate for why go green, architect and building biologist and owner of http://www.just-a-green-life-4u.com – Why Go Green For Our Childrens Future.

That said, I, Beth Lebwohl, think you make a great point. :)
Leadership goes a long way. But it may not take far-reaching ideas all the way.

Let me also add a thought: maybe green tech is a little like love, in the sense that timing is everything. What if the world is simply ripe for this kind of development, just as this development is becoming ripe for the world?

Yours truly,
Beth

Very interesting to read that, in your POV (or Steven’s) the over riding factor is commitment from African leaders. Is there historical precedent to back up the idea that if leaders show themselves to be determined and committed, financial flows (here I’m thinking foreign investment, not aid dollars) will flow? I’m thinking of leaders in Senegal, Ghana, Zimbabwe, etc who were deeply committed yet invested never really followed.

I’d theorize that investors care alot more about exogenous factors like regional instability (eg a war in Liberia won’t help the Ivory Coast maintain growth in investments) than endogenous factors like the commitment and determination of leaders.

At the end of the day, the global market has to do more than call for better leaders – they are there, they have been there. Lets form the network, markets and the institutional mechanisms that will enable them to thrive.

lars

ms. Howard, in answer to your question — the one thing Steven stone kept reiterating is that the MOST important factor here is commitment of African leaders to going ‘green’

money, even political stability, dont seem to be the determining factors, here. it’s determination, and the allocation of resources that follows.

(see: Wangari Maathai) :)

Beth