Brooks: Conserve electricity

Columnist Jeanne Brooks of The Greenville (SC) News highlighted the Center for a Better South's new book in a Sunday column encouraging people in the Palmetto State to conserve electricity:

Energy conservation starts at home. It begins with a personal consciousness about wasting electricity. It begins with vigilance about turning out lights when we leave a room.

Turning off the TV if nobody's watching. Replacing incandescent light bulbs with the new fluorescent ones. Making sure we buy energy-efficient appliances. Things like that.

But awareness also has to go all the way up into state government policies.

We might have to make a point of insisting on that.

"Getting Greener," published by the Charleston nonpartisan Center for a Better South and written by Eddy Moore, who grew up in Spartanburg, reminds, "As an old saying goes, 'If the people will lead, the government will follow.'"