Clean Energy Springfield

At last night's city council, the second wind power contract was approved unanimously, with no discussion. Which leaves me with ... not a lot say. Except: Woo-hoo!

Also last night, Tracy, from Freecycle, was given an award from the city and county for Recycler of the Year. If you don't know it, Freecycle is an international effort to organize local networks for re-using all the stuff that you want to throw away because you yourself don't have a need for it anymore. Freecycle Springfield works through a Yahoo group, where people post whatever it is they're getting rid of; people submit requests for each offer, and the offerer picks who it goes to. They have about 1700 members, self included (though I haven't made my first offer yet, which you have to do before asking for stuff). Flipping through the digest emails that come several times a day, there's an enormous variety of stuff going through here. So take a look, and think about joining. It's a great effort. As Wynne Coplea said when presenting the award last night, there are two steps we want to do before we recycle, and re-use is one of them.

Congrats, Tracy, and congrats to everyone actually doing all that freecycling.