Global wind day

Here's an exciting event if you're a fan of renewable energy:
Global Wind Day 2009.

The event is being put together by the American Wind Energy Association to allow supporters of wind energy a chance to show off their wind pictures (the shot at right is of PSE's Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility near Dayton, Wash.)

AWEA is also putting together "Tweet-ups" through Twitter in cities around the nation for wind fans to be able to chatter on social media about renewable energy.

The website for photos is now live, and will stay active all summer long.

Comments are also being taken on the much-discussed implementation of a national "RPS" -- or renewable portfolio standard.

Washington state adopted its own RPS of 15 percent renewable energy by the year 2020 through voter initiative 937 in 2006.