A National Research Council report released last week concludes that the US could halve by 2030 the oil used in cars and trucks compared to 2005 levels by increasing efficencies in gas powered vehicles and relying more on cars that use alternative power sources (see NY Times Sunday March 24, 2013 Life After Oil and Gas by Elisabeth Rosenthal). What we are seeing is that the science is there. Or here. At issue in the main is the political and social will to do anything with the science we have. Listen to Mark Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the main author of the Research Council study published in the journal Energy Policy: "It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil - we think its a myth. You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it." What this tells me is that we need to ramp up the story-telling of our environmental liberty from fossil fuel dependence with the facts of just what is indeed possible....so that we continue to change our public's attitude toward the impossibility of making significant change for the good. Too many think "we can't do that...we need too many machines, buildings, vehicles that use fossil fuels....we can't change." Let's continue to look for and tell success stories of change. In this Holy Week....we see again, perhaps need to be and are reminded again that the Tomb is empty. This means life change is a gift and new life always possible.