- Montag, 11. Juni 2012 – Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012 In meinem Kalender speichern
Midwest Clean Energy Tour: Minnesota – Iowa – Wisconsin
The Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research are hosting a public speaking tour with two leading German cooperative experts to Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin during the week of June 11, 2012.
The tour features Dr. Andreas Wieg from the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) and Michael Diestel from Agrokraft, a rural electric cooperative in Bavaria. In public and bilateral meetings, they will share practical insights on how the low carbon energy transition can create new local and cooperative business opportunities. Lessons from Germany are manifold, where much of the push towards clean energy comes from the local level. There is literally a small-town revolution underway where towns, villages and rural areas are striving to become more self-sufficient renewable energy communities.
The speakers will discuss the role that cooperatives are playing in Germany. They will address ways in which – through the cooperative model – renewable is spurring local business opportunities that can revitalize entire communities through well-paying jobs, tax revenue,
strengthened community engagement and more.
The Midwest Clean Energy Tour is part of the Climate Network, a program by the Heinrich Böll Foundation that brings together opinion leaders, legislators and policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic who are committed to achieving policy change in support of a low carbon economy agenda. The Tour is tied to the International Year of the Cooperative 2012. For further information on where and when you can meet us, please contact Rebecca Bertram at Rebecca.Bertram@us.boell.org
Or join us directly at the following public events:
Tuesday, June 12 12:30-1:30 PM
With Solar Works for Minnesota
at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
1313 5th St. SE #303, Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, June 12 3-4 PM
Annual Meeting of the Association of Rural Electric
Generating Cooperatives
at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Wednesday, June 13, 2-3:30 PM
Public Event with the Sierra Club
3520 86th Street, Urbandale, IA
Wednesday, June 13, 7-9:30 PM
Public Event with the Sierra Club
The tour features Dr. Andreas Wieg from the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) and Michael Diestel from Agrokraft, a rural electric cooperative in Bavaria. In public and bilateral meetings, they will share practical insights on how the low carbon energy transition can create new local and cooperative business opportunities. Lessons from Germany are manifold, where much of the push towards clean energy comes from the local level. There is literally a small-town revolution underway where towns, villages and rural areas are striving to become more self-sufficient renewable energy communities.
The speakers will discuss the role that cooperatives are playing in Germany. They will address ways in which – through the cooperative model – renewable is spurring local business opportunities that can revitalize entire communities through well-paying jobs, tax revenue,
strengthened community engagement and more.
The Midwest Clean Energy Tour is part of the Climate Network, a program by the Heinrich Böll Foundation that brings together opinion leaders, legislators and policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic who are committed to achieving policy change in support of a low carbon economy agenda. The Tour is tied to the International Year of the Cooperative 2012. For further information on where and when you can meet us, please contact Rebecca Bertram at Rebecca.Bertram@us.boell.org
Or join us directly at the following public events:
Tuesday, June 12 12:30-1:30 PM
With Solar Works for Minnesota
at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
1313 5th St. SE #303, Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, June 12 3-4 PM
Annual Meeting of the Association of Rural Electric
Generating Cooperatives
at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Wednesday, June 13, 2-3:30 PM
Public Event with the Sierra Club
3520 86th Street, Urbandale, IA
Wednesday, June 13, 7-9:30 PM
Public Event with the Sierra Club