Sun 4/6 @ 9-10AM
Clean renewable energy is our future — if the planet and the human race is to have any future. Sadly, many of our politicians, both on the federal level and here in Ohio, haven’t made the future their priority. We saw that recently with the $62 million scandal that erupted around HB 6, a giveaway to big energy companies (including bailouts for obsolete coal companies, one of which was in Indiana!) and send Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to prison. And our legislature continues to throw up roadblocks to solar and wind facilities, which not only produce energy but create jobs and fuel the economy.
The next in the series of “Forums That Matter” at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland takes on this issue in “Route to a Cleaner Ohio,” looking at how we get our state looking to the future, not locking in the past.
They tell us that “Ohio is among the top 10 states for total energy consumption; however, Ohio ranks 40th out of 50 states in the race toward renewable energy progress. In 2021, just 4% of the state’s electricity was supplied by renewables.” Those are sad statistics. The speaker will be Grant Goodrich, executive director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at the Case School of Engineering, which explores new energy technologies, including community solar, better heat pumps, and upgrades to the electric grid.
The forum is free and open to all, and will also be available on Zoom. Don’t worry that it’s at a church — Unitarians don’t proselytize. But they usually have coffee! Go here for more information.
uucleveland.org/community-forums/