Designed and published in 1984, these classic posters were created as a project of Kettler Ecological Design to promote and popularize renewable energy. These natural energy sources have gone largely untapped over this time span. However, suddenly, 30 years later, there is fresh and renewed interest in renewable energy, especially windpower and solar energy, and highly efficient geothermal heat pumps that can be used at the residential scale. Increasing populations and rising standards of living are creating huge demands for energy, fuels, and electricity, while the public and policy-makers squabble about oil spills, dirty coal, tar sands pipelines, fracking for natural gas, and the potential hazards of nuclear power and its radioactive wastes. Political instability threatens a reliable supply of petroleum to an oil-thirsty world. People and policy-makers are finally seeing that regardless of the role of fossil and nuclear fuels in the future, renewable energies will and must be utilized on a much greater scale across the globe.
The poster images are 20 x 30 inches on 24 x 36 inch high quality paper, giving the images a 2 inch white border. Each poster has small text at the bottom describing the past, present, and future of each energy type. Printed in bright, bold colors, they make a dramatic statement about the power generated daily by the earth and sun. Attractive, decorative, and educational for homes, offices, or schools. The images are also available as notecards with envelopes, and as postcards.
A company in Syracuse New York called Syracuse Cultural Workers published a second edition of the 4 images in 2010, which they call The Renewable Energy Collection. All the products are printed by union labor in the United States on 100% postconsumer waste recycled papers, processed chlorine free with no dioxin. They have an entire catalog of socially progressive products and pubications.
The price of a single poster is $20, and a set of all four is $72.
To order any products from The Renewable Energy Collection contact SCW by calling 800.949.5139. Their website is www.syracuseculturalworkers.com.