NORMAL -- People with a passion for a clean energy future said it would save money, and energy. And it would create high-quality hands-on green jobs which can’t be outsourced overseas. About 100 people attended a citizen meeting on green economic recovery Monday evening at Schroeder Hall at Illinois State University.
NORMAL -- People with a passion for a clean energy future said it would save money, and energy. And it would create high-quality hands-on green jobs which can’t be outsourced overseas.
About 100 people attended a citizen meeting on green economic recovery Monday evening at Schroeder Hall at Illinois State University.
Speakers were Max Muller, program director, Environment Illinois, Mercy Davison, town planner, Town of Normal, Carolyn Treadway, Normal, The Climate Project, and Jody Nord, Bloomington, of the Yellow Dwarf Solar Company.-so
The souring economy - with green solutions - was a recurring theme.
“We have a collective sense and an at-home at the kitchen table sense of unease,†said Muller noting headlines like 300,000 jobs lost at seven companies in just one day’s news. The U.S. economy depends on oil from very unstable countries.
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Treadway, trained by Al Gore, said climate change will be so drastic in 100 years Illinois will feel like east Texas in the summer and Arkansas and Oklahoma in the winter. But extreme weather now is already causing more flooding and other problems.
Each gallon of gasoline puts 20 pounds of carbon dioxide in the air. A third will be there 100 years later, Treadway said. After after 1,000 years, one- fifth remains.
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