Linuxville is a virtual place among Linux users here in NEO and I am a guide (haven't reached guru status!) Get your Linux Live-CD off the net, introduce yourself to and explore the sights and sounds and wonders. When you shut down, Linux is removed without changing your PC, you however are changed for ever. Whither you like it or no, you are changed forever. You might even install it next to MS Windows or instead of MS Windows.
I have recommended a few avenues in my blogs to save the world. Lorain needs to institute the symbiont village approach to progress. The first one is the DAV (Digital Arts Village). The center piece is a gallery to display digital art, printed or on screen. Of course traditional arts and crafts round things out. Then shops and studios and print businesses, video studios, secure data storage, everything to do with computers. Add some eateries, a mini-imax, a virtual conference center...........
The next thing is a campaign, "One Green Room Per Home". We keep tacking whirly-jigs on the grid and calling that green energy. You can't tack enough wind turbines on the grid to make it green or make me feel the green energy when I flick on my lights. In the One Green Room Per Home "sunario", home owners would buy a smaller solar array and battery system. Not to meet all their power needs, just lights, computers, fans, entertainments, etc. Energy pigs stay on the grid until further development. Everything that has an AC adapter or step-down transformer would go on a low power circuit, off grid. We should eye the AC outlet cautiously. I would use the grid as a backup but be really happy with my own green energy. If enough of us do this there'd be no need to sell energy back (could be shared between neighbors) or for utilities to worry about added capacity, peaks or overloads. And my lights are under my control when that drunk hits a light pole or lightening hits a substation.
We need to look at hybrid solutions to a lot of problems, the either or approach is not working for most us, just a few of us.