The way in which we get our energy is terribly essential, in ways that go beyond the pragmatism of the environment crisis.

The following examples might not strike you initially as making use of a form of renewable energy, but they, by definition, actually are. The difference is that they, and their products, are paired with nature in such a way that electrical energy and combustion difffentiate us from in the modern world. We associate energy with human development because we make use…