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Now he hopes to have a new resource to harvest soon: wind.
Why We Wrote This
Progress within the clean energy sector may be pushing the debate about climate change toward irrelevance. Across the Midwest – from wind farms to R&D labs – farmers are finding climate action is good business.
A new clean energy project – a 100-turbine wind farm here in Illinois’ Knox County – would generate tax revenue for the local school, fire department, and library, and offer an income stream to farmers who lease land to the project.
For Mr. Bowman and many of his farming colleagues, tending soil and harvesting wind for clean energy – initiatives that climate experts say reduce carbon emissions – is not about fighting climate change but simply about taking the best steps economically.