Wind, Water & Light: Turn your photos into energy

Wind on the Water

Wind on the Water, photo by jimflix!.

GE has an interesting project under their $10 billion dollar Ecoimagination initiative. The Ecoimagination Photo Project lets you upload photos to Flickr tagged with “Wind,” “Water,” or “Light”. For each photo, they donate a certain amount to three related charities to help build fresh water wells, donate solar powered lanterns, and build small-scale wind turbines for communities in need.

Click the photo project link above to see the photos and click for the ecomagination photo project group on Flickr.

Jim took this photo at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in October. He writes:

Late evening light on the bluffs of the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. About 30 minutes after a storm, and there’s still lots of wind coming in. At over 400 feet above Lake Michigan, it takes 30 seconds to run down this bluff, but often takes 30 minutes or more to climb back up! Those are the Empire Bluffs down the coast on the left. And the distant point on the right is Point Betsie.

A complement to this photo, and here’s a photo in the middle.

Check it out background bigtacular and in his Sleeping Bear Dunes slideshow.

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