As a developer, you can educate and help people conserve energy. Heating and cooling are enormous culprits. Learn to be comfortable at 60-65 in the winter, and 75-80 in the summer. Transportation is a big culprit as well. Buy a bicycle and use it for everything under 10 miles. Of course green technologies are helpful, and I don't mean to discount them, but the reality is that our cultural attitudes towards consumption are just as much of the problem.
To visually see what I mean, check out this graphic from the book: http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_109.shtml The red bar on the left represents a typical Britain's consumption (which, mind you, is statistically less than the typical American's). The green bar on the right represents the pie-in-the-sky most insanely optimistic output of all the green technologies. Like, if they covered the entire country in solar panels and surrounded it with windmills and tidal power. It's basically a completely unreasonable estimate of the top-end of green energy production, and it doesn't even match the consumption bar.
[1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4070074-sustainable-energ...
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