Long, long ago our planet was just a rock, a shell that had cooled over its molten hot interior, devoid of life.  Hot gases poured out of its fissures, forming dense clouds in the atmosphere.  And then it rained.  It rained for thousands and thousands of years, filling the craters and grooves, percolating down through the fissures to fill underground caverns. With water and then sunlight, came life.  Vegetation took hold, decayed, creating topsoil and more life.  Single-celled life formed and from these simple cells, more complex life forms evolved. 

Fossil fuels are formed by natural processes that take place over the time span of hundreds of millions of years deep underneath the Earth’s surface. Because they takes too long to regenerate, fossil fuels are considered a non-renewable resource. Today, we are highly dependent on this type of resources in our daily life. Around 80 percent all our energy demand is covered by burning fossil fuels. But we are consuming too much and too fast. At the current consumption rate, it is estimated that fossil fuels will run out in less than 100 years. Then what?

From recycling and efficient heating solutions to renewable and buying locally sourced organic produce, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to ways we can help save the environment. Climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity are global challenges but they should not leave us feeling powerless. Sometimes, solutions are so diverse and unexpected that they can even catch us by surprise.

Each day we are breaking new ground with renewable energy: from the new record Germany broke by generating 35% of power from renewables in first half of 2017 [1] to the fact that renewables investment remains larger than that for all fossil fuels[2]. And this is good news for our climate and environment: with increasing energy demand, renewable forms of energy enable us to fuel our needs with remarkably low greenhouse gas emissions especially when compared to fossil fuels.