{"id":1688,"date":"2011-08-01T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/lets-put-lowndes-county-on-the-clean-economy-map.html"},"modified":"2011-08-01T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T18:17:43","slug":"lets-put-lowndes-county-on-the-clean-economy-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/lets-put-lowndes-county-on-the-clean-economy-map.html","title":{"rendered":"Let’s put Lowndes County on the Clean Economy Map!"},"content":{"rendered":"Look where\n\nthose clean economy jobs<\/a> are:\n
\nAmong regions, the South has the largest number of clean economy jobs\nthough the West has the largest share relative to its population. Seven\nof the 21 states with at least 50,000 clean economy jobs are in the\nSouth. Among states, California has the highest number of clean jobs\nbut Alaska and Oregon have the most per worker.\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nA per-county map is included, on which you can see North Carolina\nand Atlanta, but nothing in south Georgia.\nLet’s put Lowndes County on the clean energy map!\n

\nThe gigaom article recommends:\n

\nTo help boost the clean energy economy even more, the Brookings report\nsuggests that Congress could pass a national clean energy standard, put\na price on carbon, use the government as a chief customer of cleantech\ngoods (Obama has been strong on this), find more ways to help proven\nclean technologies pass the so-called Valley of Death, as well as\nincrease funding for basic science and early-stage high risk projects\n(like the Department of Energy\u2019s ARPA-E program).\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/a>\nThat’s good stuff, but we don’t have to wait for the feds.\nThe\n\nWiregrass Solar plant<\/a>\nsets a precedent that we can build on.\nThat plant is readily\n\nexpandable to an additional megawatt<\/a>.\n\n<\/a>\nIt can also be used to attract financing for other projects,\nprojects that can use local labor, for example\n\nsolar electricity and hot water like the example in Quitman.<\/a>\n

\nLots of places have forged ahead into real clean energy on their own,\nsuch as \nBirmingham, England<\/a>\nand\n\nSan Antonio.<\/a>\n

\nSure, we’re not nearly as big as those places, or so local “leaders” remind me.\nSo let’s find some projects of our scale that we can do, and let’s do them!\nA real leader might say, as\n\nMayor Julian Castro of San Antonio did<\/a>, that\nrenewable energy is\n

\n\n<\/a>\n“…the nexus between sustainability and job creation. Every now\nand then, perhaps once in a generation, there presents itself a moment,\nan opportunity, for those cities that are willing to seize it, to truly\nbenefit the region for generations to come.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThat opportunity is right here in south Georgia, waiting for us to seize it.\n

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