The Sun, the Wind, and the Promise of Ohio’s Clean Energy Development

TOLEDO -This worn Lake Erie city is an unlikely launching point for Ohio’s new clean energy economy. Dark storefronts and empty homes in Toledo, like the missing teeth of a tired grin, scar the shrinking city of 295,000 that once declared itself the auto parts capital of the world. Tall grass grows in the cracked asphalt of empty parking lots by closed factories that once made steel and glass and manufactured parts that kept America behind the wheel.

But it is along Toledo’s west side avenues, and in the industrial parks of nearby suburbs like Perrysburg, that the cold lonely winter of Ohio’s industrial decline is gradually turning into a new season of economic opportunity fostered by the sun, wind, geothermal, fuel cells, next generation batteries, and the electric vehicles that use them.

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Seattle Machinists Apprenticeships Trains Next Generation of Windmill Workers

Journeyman machinists are retiring at a rapid pace throughout greater Seattle. To offset the dwindling workforce, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 160 is teaming up with area companies to offer a multi-year apprentice program that brings fresh hands into the industry.

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