We are told how we need to limit the eco footprint left on the world by each person on the plant and how bad it can be if we don't. From this new forward thinking, people sprung up with real alternative thinking about everything from an alternative fuel to other ways to think about tax. There is even an alternative minimum tax. There are the green thinkers who not only recycle, but started harnessing the winds power through huge wind farms for an alternative energy source all the way to the home owners who have solar power as an alternative fuel for not only heating their homes but also the water they use in them.
My personal favorite is the ones that have figured out a way to harness the bike riding as power for the kids to watch T.V., takes care of both the need for and the child with to much energy. Of course you can not forget the alternative therapy and alternative treatment there is available for most all medical issues. From what I have read there are great advances in alternative treatment for cancer including ones that were thought untreatable. However they are still considered alternative therapies, but then again at one time not so long ago chiropratics were considered an alternative therapy and not paid for by insurances. Vitamins are also considered an alternative treatment for anything even calcium replacement.
I for one can hope that with all the forward thinking people and the real alternative choices they have come up with in fuels, energy, treatment and therapy that the world we leave behind for our children and grandchildren will be better then the one we received from our parents. Now that is a real alternative.