[CPEO-BIF] "Solar and green jobs are rising around Chicago's 'toxic doughnut'"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar and green jobs are rising around Chicago’s ‘toxic doughnut’

by Kevin Stark
Energy News Network
December 12, 2018


Altgeld Gardens will soon be the site of a city-sponsored green jobs training program and a brownfield solar farm.

After years of community demands for investment, green jobs and development are finally coming to one of Chicago’s poorest and most isolated neighborhoods.

Altgeld Gardens, a sprawling public housing complex home to about 5,000 mostly African American residents, is surrounded by landfills and industry in an area once dubbed Chicago’s “toxic doughnut.” 

The past year has brought reasons for hope, though. In May, the Chicago Housing Authority signed a $145,000 contract to develop and execute a solar and energy efficiency training curriculum for residents focused on entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency. Then, in October, the city announced it was seeking a developer to construct a solar farm on a brownfield abutting Altgeld Gardens.


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For the entire article, see
https://energynews.us/2018/12/12/midwest/solar-and-green-jobs-are-rising-around-chicagos-toxic-doughnut/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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