Environment Illinois Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3: New global warming plan for Illinois

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Environment Illinois Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3: New global warming plan for Illinois

Environment Illinois's Newsletter Goes Online
This winter's edition of Environment Illinois's newsletter is now available online at
http://www.EnvironmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08
It's the same newsletter you've always gotten -- but moving to the Web means less printing, which helps us reduce our environmental impact and keeps more of your contribution working toward real results for Illinois's environment.

Top Story
Hope for global warming solutions
On September 7, the 40-member Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group voted to recommend a comprehensive global warming response to Governor Blagojevich, which would, if implemented, cut Illinois's emissions of global warming pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. The plan relies on clean, renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean cars and clean fuels to meet the goal...
http://www.environmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08

Letter from the staff
http://www.environmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08

Featured articles
Moving Beyond Pollution in the Great Lakes
http://www.environmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08/moving-beyond-pollution-in-the-great-lakes

New report asks "Is It In Us?"
http://www.environmentillinois.org/newsletters/winter08/new-report-asks-is-it-in-us

Recent action
Illinoisans tell EPA to clean up smog
http://www.environmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08/recent-action

Clean energy breakthrough in Congress?
http://www.environmentIllinois.org/newsletters/winter08/recent-action

To make a contribution or join Environment Illinois, visit https://www.environmentillinois.org/membership. To contact me, or to let me know that you'd prefer a paper version of this newsletter, just reply to this message.

Environment Illinois
103 E. Liberty, Suite 202 . Ann Arbor, MI 48104 . (734) 662-9797

Sincerely,

Rebecca D. Stanfield
Environment Illinois State Director
RebeccaS@environmentillinois.org
http://www.environmentillinois.org

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Illinois Renewable Energy Association site

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The AWEA's annual expo:
Global WINDPOWER 2004
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 28-31, 2004

I was there...
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Dan Stafford - Publisher
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WE WELCOME ENERGY STORY SUBMISSIONS!
Please note the E-mail link by the title of the webpage. Comments, stories, and article submissions are welcome. Any accepted submission entitles the submitter to a link on the Journal page included at the bottom of their submitted entry when published to the journal. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal makes no claim as to the accuracy of submitted material. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal neither endorses nor opposes opinions expressed in submitted material. Submitter must provide name, city, and state or country. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal imples no promise to publish all submissions. Adult content will definitely NOT be published. Submitted material will be screened and appropriate entries published at the owner's discretion.

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I strongly encourage those seriously interested in learning about the technology, players, politics, and issues of Wind Energy to spend time browsing the American Wind Energy Association website. They are the premier industry trade organization and have extensive resources available.
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The Green Ocean Project: Using solar energy to distill water for agriculture.

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The Empty Hand

Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."