Rural Communities Should Focus on Clean Energy, Job Creation

I’m as guilty as the next person. I stereotype rural folks even though I’ve lived the majority of my life in podunk Idaho communities so small that we anchor directions from the one or two stoplights in town. So when I prepare myself for a day of discussing climate change and clean energy policy at the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition’s policy gathering, I find that I’m not prepared at all for the deep, thoughtful discussions rural Westerners are having about the subjects.

By Gina Knudson

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