What is the WTCCC and What Does it Do????

As part of English 1020's series of "Think Globally, Act Locally," Andrew Couch, Founder of the West Tennessee Clean Cities Coalition (WTCCC), kicked off this series Friday, March 14th in Patterson 456. So, a lot of people there had never even heard of the WTCCC and surely didn't know what it was that they did.

An organization founded in August of 2005 by Andrew Couch, has many functions. It tracks legislation that affects or is affected by environmental concerns. The WTCCC helps other organizations by assisting them with the knowledge of how to obtain grants and funding. It provides education and outreach to communities on how to become more environmentally friendly. It preaches the virtues, not to mention the cost effectiveness, of energy consumption control and is always, always, always researching new alternative fuels.

When asked "Why should we even consider alternative fuels?" Andrew Couch stated that it is something worth sticking with and seeing through to the end. He and others vehemently believe that new alternative fuels will replace existing, highly inconvenient fossil fuels such as petroleum.
Also asked was, "Why are people so apprehensive about alternative fuels?" For this, he offered the explanation that people do not like change (which is painfully true). People didn't like the radio (sort of replacement for newspapers and magazines) when it was invented, nor did they like radio's replacement, television. Same will soon, or may already, be said about TV's replacement, the Internet.