In the News: The Wind’s Picking Up

August 8th, 2008 BY Annie | 2 Comments

Wind power, turbines, sleek new windmill designs: we are all about the wind power these days. It’s sad that it takes a fossil-fuel energy crisis to get us thinking about sustainable and innovative options for powering all our machines, but it seems that it does. Still, since we’re talking, let’s keep talking. People, businesses, governments, organizations, and communities are looking for ways to convert from the fossil-fuel dependency and resulting high emissions and high cost, to better models and methods, those that benefit both the environment and the economy.

An article from Green Student U describes a town in Missouri that is now powered completely by wind. I live in Missouri (no, not in this town) and I am excited to hear about this kind of development here in the middle instead of just on the two coasts.

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