Solution to our energy crisis: kids, weight lifters, dance clubs?
November 12, 2008
Imagine harnessing the energy of every playground, gym and athletic event? Even a dance club?
Could we solve obesity and energy by promoting and collecting this largely untapped source? The beauty is that the participants feel a sense of contribution:
“It’s all about bottling their energy,” says a cautious Cavanagh. “But most of all I want these kids to know that it is their energy that will solve problems. The system they play on every single day is the same system that the same type of kids use across the globe.”
Parents seem to be in agreement, says Kris Gernert-Dott, mother of 5th and 7th grade students at the Montessori School: “Through this water and energy project … my daughters have been moved to think of ways they can help make the world a better place.”
The idea certainly isn’t new. But a movement to actually determine how to store it and publicize it is.
