Featured in Track and Yield – 07-2017

The Sun Also Rises

Solar in the Midwest: In the region that was once a bastion of American heavy industry, and is still home to the farms that help feed the country, the solar industry is beginning to take root.

By

Frank Andorka

07 Jul 2017

Ghosts of the Midwest’s proud industrial history litter its landscape. The names of old industrial cities echo down through history: Lorain, Gary, and Flint.If you squint hard enough, you can see the shadows of men, numbering in the thousands, streaming into the car factories and steel mills. If you listen carefully, you can still hear …

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