Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minnesota:
In southwest Minneapolis, organizers from Linden Hills Power and Light hope that non-recyclable paper, food scraps and an "anaerobic digester" will add up to electricity for their neighborhood.
Regardless of your position on climate change, what these people are exploring makes perfect sense to me as I'm sure it does to you. Our waste has considerable unused energy potential and Trinity has spent and are spending alot of time and effort learning and developing ways to add value to materials that would otherwise end up in a waste stream. We're speaking with public policy-makers to educate them on these products and possible projects. A huge, virtually untapped, potential for agricultural, business, and community self-reliance lies waiting to be utilized. The bi-product? - a cleaner environment, waste transformed into valuable co-products, reduction of green-house gases, reduction of energy dollars flowing out of Michigan, added jobs, and a model for sustainability that even Bill McKibben could endorse.
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