The City of Cleveland has proclaimed 2012--the Year of Local Food. [1]
What major food and energy initiatives has the City rolled out?
On the west side of CLE, we know that the City has planned an incinerator for energy production....and an ordinance allows us to keep chickens and bees. [2] What's planned on the east side ? Frankly, I would take solar as my energy choice first. Wouldn't you??
The photo above shows a solar array at the Rockefeller Greenhouse in the beautiful Glenville neighborhood. [3] I would like to see a similar development in my neighborhood [4]--to help offset costs at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.
There are so many potential ways to develop neighborhoods as GREEN neighborhoods. Building an incinerator is not one of those ways... [5]
One encouraging development--presentation by Tom Steyer of Advanced Energy Economy at City Club:
http://www.aee.net/news/aee-in-the-news [6]
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Links:
[1] http://www.gcbl.org/2019
[2] http://www.gcbl.org/food/local-foods-and-markets/clevelands-livestock-ordinance
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenville,_Cleveland
[4] http://www.brooklyncentrenaturalists.net/
[5] http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/03/cleveland_is_wise_to_scale_bac.html
[6] http://www.aee.net/news/aee-in-the-news
[7] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/Rays.jpg