Activist Project

For the winter study class on climate change activism with Wendy Penner, we need to do a weekly activism project. This week, I published a letter to the editor in the North Adams Transcript

Monday, January 7
To the editor:

I applaud Savoy for approving the wind energy project. This is an important step toward fixing climate change and becoming cleanly energy independent.

Thank you, Bonnie Obremski, for keeping us so well informed on these developments. I am also very glad that Tom Decker, who lives near the Searsburg (Vt.) wind farm, wrote a favorable letter for the Savoy project. Sometimes it takes people who have actually lived near them to reassure us they aren't really that bad.

I spoke with a woman whose front porch looks out at the Jiminy Peak turbine. Her first word in describing it was "pretty." Indeed, the fascination and excitement that has greeted the Zephyr at Jiminy is evident all over the mountain.

As we develop more wind in Massachusetts, hopefully we can convince those opposed to it that it isn't so bad. Cape Wind should be approved soon; there's no excuse. On the local front, Williams College has the financial resources and institutional commitment to build its own wind power on the Taconics. We should work to make such a project happen, now that we know the support for wind is growing in our beautiful, green Berkshires.

Morgan Goodwin

Even better than getting it published, my friend Sam who is the chief custodian for Paresky commended me today on the piece. He called out to me and said that he had enjoyed reading it. Not bad for 5 minutes of work and reading the Transcript now and then.

On a different note, I genuinely meant the praise for Bonnie Obramskie. Her reporting has consistently sought out stories on climate change issues in the purple valley. Thank you Bonnie.