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James Woolsey Energy Efficient Home

I'd like to introduce you to energyNOW!, "a new half-hour weekly TV news-magazine and opinion program designed to inform and engage Americans on the most pressing energy issues of the day."  From what I've seen from energyNOW!, their goals overlap with ours, their target audience is just more focused on energy policy, where our audience is more focused on things individuals can do in their daily lives and in our homes. In fact, when I read their About Us page, it's almost as if I wrote it for Mapawatt!:

First, America’s energy future is at a crossroads. The country faces multiple far reaching challenges that are both urgent and complex.

These include: addressing America’s unsustainable dependence on imported oil; meeting the need for reliable and affordable electricity under tightening environmental constraints (e.g., smog and greenhouse gas emission limits); winning the global race for clean energy jobs and investment -- that is, for leadership of the next “industrial revolution;” and ensuring that our energy resources are used as wisely and efficiently as possible.

How these issues are resolved will have a very large impact on America’s future place in the world -- its national security and the economic well-being of its citizens -- for decades to come.

Second, even as the country begins to confront these challenges, many people find that in-depth, scientifically grounded reporting on the key energy and environmental issues of the day is hard to find, particularly on TV and the Internet.