This is part of the linked article.. good quick read if you are at all interested..
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/11/15/13565250/renewable-energy-is-seeping-into-small-town-america?fbclid=IwAR3DFuVphukiSgMbH850GX-I-ueX-xs_4h4XW-I1QL5Vf1Auo6wq5IPgVskC*****e c****e is a highly polarized and contentious issue. It has taken on great symbolic significance for both sides of America’s deep partisan divide. And if Donald Trump and the GOP actually follow through on what they’ve promised, federal climate policy may all but disappear.
Clean energy, however, is different. In public opinion polls, it is supported by virtually every demographic, region, and party.
What’s more, unlike the abstractions involved in climate, clean energy is real, tangible, and — perhaps most important of all — commercially viable. There are many things that divide Americans, but they are generally united on the benefits of making money.
Even as the (small and shrinking) number of coal jobs gets endless media attention, renewable energy has scaled up to become a serious employer in the US. And it’s happening in places far outside the usual blue urban enclaves — think solar in rural North Carolina or wind in Texas and Oklahoma.
As part of their fascinating American Futures project, the Atlantic’s James and Deborah Fallows have been flying around the country (in their Cirrus SR22), “taking seriously places that don’t usually get registered seriously.” They’ve been telling fascinating and optimistic stories about the way Americans, even as their national politics is awash in rancor and division, are coming together is practical, pragmatic ways to build better futures.
(Needless to say, this kind of sensible local progressivism will be more important than ever in the Trump era.)
Their latest episode is about the quiet renewable energy revolution happening in small places outside the national spotlight. Check it out: