Gen Z Farmer Eager for Solar to Address Carbon Footprint
I spoke to Aaron Ostrander and his family in Southeast Michigan, where their efforts to site solar on their land have been (temporarily, I believe) stymied by the campaign of disinformation and hostility that I’ve documented on this page before. Aaron talked about his generation, and the increased awareness of climate change and the “carbon footprint”, which he hopes to address with a solar component on the land he hopes to keep in the family.
3 thoughts on “Gen Z Farmer Eager for Solar to Address Carbon Footprint”
The article and Mr Ostrander are correct. To the degree that putting solar on open land is seen as a political rather than an ecological choice is degree to which our community has stopped being able to solve problems rationally. Maybe that was always legacy hearsay.
There are two basic problems, the first being the ecological and climatological one, the second being whether or not it continues to be desirable to live among people who see all outcomes as if they were results of sporting events.
Peter, This post reminds me to follow up on our conversation at the Climate Summit about the Siting problems and the need to get more folks and organizations behind efforts to deal with it.
Do you have a shorter version of the video that you showed at your session? WHile it was very powerful, it would be good to have a much shorter version. Those farmers were so powerful but became a little redundant over time. For exposing some of the advocacy groups to this, a 2-3 minute version would be really helpful. I think you already have the clips you need but could get almost the same impact with a shorter version. Do you have or could you easily do a shorter version?
If you can get me a short version, I’ll start contacting people and asking for help in getting this topic on people’s priority lists.
Best… Tom
Tom Porter The Porter Family Foundation tporter@umich.edu theporterfamilyfoundation.org
The article and Mr Ostrander are correct. To the degree that putting solar on open land is seen as a political rather than an ecological choice is degree to which our community has stopped being able to solve problems rationally. Maybe that was always legacy hearsay.
There are two basic problems, the first being the ecological and climatological one, the second being whether or not it continues to be desirable to live among people who see all outcomes as if they were results of sporting events.
Peter, This post reminds me to follow up on our conversation at the Climate Summit about the Siting problems and the need to get more folks and organizations behind efforts to deal with it.
Do you have a shorter version of the video that you showed at your session? WHile it was very powerful, it would be good to have a much shorter version. Those farmers were so powerful but became a little redundant over time. For exposing some of the advocacy groups to this, a 2-3 minute version would be really helpful. I think you already have the clips you need but could get almost the same impact with a shorter version. Do you have or could you easily do a shorter version?
If you can get me a short version, I’ll start contacting people and asking for help in getting this topic on people’s priority lists.
Best… Tom
Tom Porter The Porter Family Foundation tporter@umich.edu theporterfamilyfoundation.org
check your email, I’ll put something together, might take a week or so.
meanwhile, if anyone missed the “part 2” of that original video, it’s here
https://youtu.be/35x39wpd2Rg