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Clean energy good for business, negates climate change

Aspen Daily News · last updated

Editor:

The excellent story in Thursday’s Aspen Daily News, describing the remarkable accomplishments of Holy Cross Energy, omitted one critically important point: HCE’s success is our success. Holy Cross users are not just customers, we are owners of the co-op. We elected the board of directors who hired the brilliant CEO who designed the co-op’s achievements.

A few years ago, a tiny group of locals quietly mobilized the campaign by which we elected our innovative board of directors — including our two reps, locals Bob Gardner and Dave Munk.

Just a few years ago, HCE’s current achievement — 85% green electricity — was regarded by conventional experts and many citizens as the naïve fantasy of flaky tree huggers. Nope, clean energy is good for business and it mitigates climate change. And we got there through good ol’ democracy.

Michael Kinsley

Old Snowmass

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