Is it me, or are there good reasons to be optimistic at the moment?

An American promise of a Green ‘New Deal’, the UK’s pledge to cut CO2 80% by 2050, their failed plans to exclude aviation and shipping from the Climate Change Bill and then there is a slight whiff of a new economy in the air. It’s an environmentalists dream. Things are going well. Those that used democracy and continually lobbied our governments have won.

But then it was really never a competition. Just a load of people wanting to make a great change.

Obama’s strapline, ‘Change we can believe in’, is heralding a new era. But he never started it, we all did, and he knows that. That’s the difference between the new one and the old one.

But to coin a cliche, the end is just the beginning. The framework taking shape for something great to happen, it’s now up to each and every one of us. The ball has only just starting rolling.

The other day a door to door salesman from nPower came to call with the promise of a cheaper tariff. It surprised him that I choose a supplier that specialised in 100% renewable energy. For me it doesn’t matter how hard times are there is no excuse not to shift to a 100% green tariff when you are juggling for the future. I’m sure life can be adjusted, and luxuries sacrificed to achieve it. For me I never had to, my Eco-fantastic supplier priced matched my existing supply. Now I feel like my energy and my conscious is clean.

If you are wondering what to ‘Green’ next, changing your energy supplier is something positive you can focus your amazing consumer powers on. Consumers in any economic climate are the puppetters of business. Draw the strings and show companies how you want your future to be.