Masai Mara Sunset in Kenya

I am not pretending for a moment that Kenya is the kid and the U. S. or any other ‘developed’ nation is the adult. It’s the other way around. Kenyans have been here much longer than we ‘Westerners’.

However, the fact that the Kenyan government has a blue print for renewable energy – Kenya Energy Sector Environment Program (KEEP) - gives pause to wonder. It’s definitely the ‘under-developed‘ leading the ‘developed‘ no?

KEEP wants to -

  1. phase out importing telephone poles
  2. preserve the nation’s water catchment despite population pressure
  3. remove existing barriers and constraints to adoption of efficiency and conservation technologies
  4. begin switching from reliance on charcoal for fuel to promoting commercial tree growth
  5. 85% of their planned new capacity to come from clean geothermal and hydro renewable sources

Go, Kenya, go!

Show the rest of the world how to do it.

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