public education

photo: Seshadri.bharath (CC-ZERO)

Although nearly everything we depend on depends on energy -- food, water, transportation, the Internet -- few people know about how energy is produced, how it gets to them, or how much they use. Margot Gerritsen (2009) hopes to change this and to raise awareness about the importance of energy efficiency and renewable resources. She is working on multiple fronts to improve "energy literacy" through her blog and recently as an adviser to the Energy Literacy Initiative led by the U.S. Department of Energy.