If color is light and light is energy, then an energy plan may imply a countenancing of the electromagnetic spectrum from the point of view of the painter. In today’s lexicon it is generally assumed that an energy plan refers to some form of resource consumption at the service of economic engines.  It is humanity’s arrogance to conceive of “energy” as primarily a force that powers houses, cars, or offices and that can be summed up and totalized in the form of a natural standing reserve in the capitalist dominion. In this time of global environmental peril, political powerlessness, and catastrophe in the world economies, politicians and the media disperse the myth of “energy plans” as some sort of policy initiative that delimits energy into a material storehouse without reflecting on the basic paradigm of consuming the Earth. But it is the Earth that is consuming us.

Together with the question of capital, energy is the central philosophical and political issue that humanity is currently faced with. It encompasses every economic, political, emotional, and material aspect of our lives. Yet the term “energy” as it is employed today rarely means anything other than a commodity over which wars are fought, billions are made, and the planet is degraded. I propose a different concept, one of energy in the expanded sense that includes love, thinking, willing, and the ungraspable mysterious powers of nature. The greatest renewable eco-friendly resource is the energy of goodness.
-Jorge Griego