Southeast Louisiana is a prime place for solar panels and water turbines that could replace power generated through fossil-fuels such as oil and gas.
Southeast Louisiana's massive amounts of annual sunshine and river and tidal flows could produce more than enough energy to remove oil and gas from the needs of commercial and residential users.
One resident of New Orlean's 8th Ward added just two solar panels in March 2006, producing 300 kilowatts for his house on Mandeville Street, at a cost of $1000, and immediately went off the grid.
Rebuild Green is working with several providers of "green power" such as Dovetail Solar and with advocates for consumer-independence such as Local Power and the Alliance for Affordable Energy to realize the tremendous potential that southeast Louisiana has for a future of clean, renewable energy.
Removing consumers' dependence on oil and gas would also remove a many-fingered source of destruction of Louisiana's wetlands.