World Team Now is about living in balance with our collective resources globally. It takes a TEAM to do this.  Getting in balance requires systems change. 

Being resilient to worldwide extreme weather events requires the adoption of new ways of thinking. The perfect storm of extreme natural disasters that challenge our power grid way of life.

World Team Now has been focused on providing sustainable solutions for the Small Island States. We have come to the realization that the “island” thinking of providing basic needs sustainably, in particular, power with renewable energy community microgrids is needed for any place where people can benefit from their own power, especially rural areas without developed infrastructure.  Especially places where fires can cause islanding and power distribution needs to continue at the community level.  World Team Now proposed a renewable energy microgrid for the town of Orangeburg.  Now, in addition, the “radial” design of the present distribution grid has inequitable reliability for the many residents in outer reaches who are at the end of the line. This unfortunate situation is a perfect storm with natural disasters, especially with fires.  Distributed power sources in a community grid make reliability more equitable.

  • Grid 1.0 was Edison’s DC grid.
  • Grid 2.0 was the outcome of the AC/DC wars which created today’s AC grid and the economic model for utility profit.
  • Grid 3.0 puts the (renewable) power back to the people with “plug and play” and brings DC elements back into its fold.

But policy change is needed in both to break out of the unstainable Grid 2.0 economic model and allow for the required power shift to enable Grid 3.0, which includes the community-owned and run microgrid. We can help move legislation being formulated to allow individuals to supply power for their homes, villages/towns and their communities. World Team Now has worked on the policy end and catalyzed the way for the Town of Lake Placid NY to permit net metering.

World Team Now is teaming-up with strategic partners for “island” thinking systems change for energy power, alternative transportation, clean air, water, sanitation, agriculture, experiential education, and health care models.

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