Tag: Farmland
A Michigan town hopes to stop a data center with a 2026 ballot initiative
By Tom Perkins, Inside Climate News
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. This is the second of three articles about Michigan communities organizing to stop the construction of energy-intensive computing facilities.
Small Agrivoltaic Project, Big Implications For The Future Of Farming
A small but mighty agrivoltaic project in Virginia aims to demonstrate that US farmers can successfully grow rows of food between rows of solar panels.
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Leelanau Conservancy meets $8 million goal for Sugar Loaf
No ski lift — but instead, hiking, biking and cross country ski trails, and views of the whole peninsula and Lake Michigan.
10 Quick Responses to Common Electric Car & Renewable Energy Myths
Contrary to popular belief and media hype, there are a number of myths regarding cleantech that aren’t true or lack context, yet are pushed year after year after year after year. Here are some quick responses to 10 of them: 1. Gasoline-powered cars are actually much more likely to catch … [continued]
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Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
By Kari Lydersen
This story was originally published by Canary Media.
To all the challenges the solar industry is facing today, add one more: cultivating a domestic market for lamb meat. It may seem an unlikely mission for clean-energy developers, but in many states, including Illinois, grazing sheep between rows of photovoltaic panels is considered the most efficient form of agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and farming on the same land.