Cleveland Solar Cooperative w/ Kim Mann and Jonathan Welle
b'Carolyn Harding (host) with Kim Mann and Jonathan Welle, organizers of the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, a multi-racial, multi-class cooperative business that finances solar projects. It allows local residents with as little as $50 make an investment in solar, joining with fellow community members to envision, develop, and own the project. CSC promotes an energy system built, guided, and owned by those who use it.\\n\\nKim Mann is a retired air traffic controller, Membership Director of the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, Vice-president of the Fairview Park Democratic Club, and Precinct Leader and Executive Committee Member for the Cuyahoga County Democratic Central Committee. Kim is active in local grassroots resistance and environmental organizations such as Indivisible CLE and West Shore FaCT. She and her husband Jeff aspire to get their 70-year-old home to \\u201cnet-zero energy\\u201d and convert their yard to a permaculture food forest.\\n\\nJonathan Welle is the Governance Director of Cleveland Solar Cooperative and is an organizer at Cleveland Owns, a nonprofit that incubates cooperative businesses. He works with groups of neighbors and workers who are using collective ownership of solar finance companies, a food cooperative, and a purchasing cooperative to demand their fair share of prosperity and grow a post-capitalist democratic economy.\\nhttps://www.clevelandsolar.org/\\n\\nCooperatives that have inspired #ClevelandSolarCooperative:\\nhttps://www.peoplepowersolar.org/\\nhttps://www.cooperativeenergyfutures.com/\\nhttps://www.cooppower.coop/\\n\\nGrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.\\nEvery Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,\\nSundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.\\nContact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.\\nCheck us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/\\nCheck us out on Instagram:\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/\\nIf you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753\\nGrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085\\nThis GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/\\nIntro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8\\nThere\'s a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!'