Pigs are not only flying, they're making space flights from
City Hall. Hell has frozen over- not just a few ice cubes but a
glacier. The fair city of Minneapolis has granted me a building
permit for a stove that will heat my house with a cheap, renewable,
and clean fuel- corn.
I'm not sure if they had some new help in permits that didn't
know they weren't supposed to, or maybe someone signed off on my
permit application without really reading it. Or perhaps Minneapolis
has finally figured out that the mission of the permit office is not
protecting the virtual monopoly that a handful of heating contractors
have for too long enjoyed. Those favored few contractors only install
the gas or electric furnaces made by the manufacturers they are
franchised too. Minneapolis gets a cut of this gravy train too, in
the form of that city franchise fee tacked onto your natural gas bill.
So Minneapolis yet may be the city that survives and thrives
beyond peak oil with renewable energy. But we have a long way to go-
with our Farmer's Market near deserted this time of year, why not let
farmers and loggers sell corn, wood pellets, and firewood there? And
why not heat all new city buildings with renewable fuels?
keepin' warm with renewables in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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