New Year’s Resolution Win: All Chicago Buildings Use 100% Clean Energy
All Chicago buildings use 100% clean energy. To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi.
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- Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco covers climate change and the environment for WBEZ and Grist. Previously, Juanpablo covered substandard housing and police-community relations for WNIJ Radio in DeKalb. He’s been a bilingual facilitator at the StoryCorps office in Chicago. As a civic reporting fellow at City Bureau, a non-profit news organization that focuses on Chicago’s South Side, Ramirez-Franco produced print and audio stories about the Pilsen neighborhood. Before that, he was a production intern at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the rural America editorial intern at In These Times magazine. Ramirez-Franco grew up in northern Illinois. He is a graduate of Knox College.
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