Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill Mckibben
“As Jimmy Carter is laid to rest this week, I think it’s worth paying attention to just exactly how out front he was on solar energy. Driven by both the upheaval of the OPEC embargoes and the lingering echoes of Earth Day at the start of the 1970s, and with ‘Limits to Growth’ and ‘Small is Beautiful’ as two of the decade’s big bestsellers (Carter had a reception for E.F. Schumacher at the White House!), the administration decided that solar was the way out. … Everyone knows about the solar panels on the White House roof, but that was the least of it. Jimmy Carter, in his 1980 budget, pledged truly serious cash for solar research, and for building out panels on roofs across America.” (01/07/25)
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-carterreagan-moment-and-the-bidentrump