Welcome to Windustrious
Cleveland faces a unique opportunity to become the first city in the U.S. to install an offshore wind farm in fresh water. It would translate into a powerful image of Cleveland as a progressive, productive, jobs-creating city, with a bubbling business climate, a place where young professionals will want to come and stay, and a very interesting tourist destination.
We can lead the way, or we can simply follow along, after the trend has gathered momentum elsewhere. Given our assets in infrastructure, location and historically-grounded expertise in relevant industries, one could say we had an actual responsibility, an obligation, to be at the forefront. By acting now, we could reap the tremendous business opportunities of being in the vanguard of research, development and production of the equipment that the rest of the country, and the world, will inevitably be demanding. If we reject this opportunity, and build turbines out on the Lake only after others have taken the initiative somewhere else, we will be consciously throwing away not just that free marketing asset, but the economic advantages of taking a leadership role in this new technology.
Evolving Technology and Increasing Beauty
June 22, 2020
Icebreaker — Falling Down or Starting Up?
However, maybe we will foil them again………..
Our Windustrious Future
Champions
Windustrious Champions are the people who have added their voices to the call for Cleveland to take advantage of a great natural resource – wind power over Lake Erie.
You too can be a Champion of wind power on Lake Erie. Just send your name, and how you would like to be identified, to sarah@windustrious.org. Attach a photo of yourself – if you would like to, and express your enthusiasm for ‘wind from the lake’, in a couple of sentences.
By becoming Champions, we can all be part of the groundswell that will help Cleveland take this dramatic and symbolic step.
Champion List
World renowned climate scientist Michael Mann sends a strong statement of support for the proposed Offshore Wind Power project on Lake Erie
Michael Mann has drawn attention to climate change as the most threatening challenge that humanity has ever faced. He has done this at the scientific level – through his cutting-edge research, publications, and presentations – as well as at the more general level, through his talks, enlightening media interviews, and his books. His leadership has been acknowledged through countless awards that have expressed appreciation for how he has moved forward our planetary-level discussion of this gigantic problem that we all face. Read Michael Mann’s statement here.
Endorsements from organizations, companies, unions, and legislators
Food For Thought
Stealing Our Sympathy
by Sarah Taylor, SpeakOut, Truth Out There is a growing sense among the public that life on our planet is being threatened by our careless misuse of its resources. The most obvious evidence of this...
Environmentalists or Maybe the Opposite
A proposed wind turbine installation near Camp Perry in Northwestern Ohio has recently been halted by environmental groups that turn out to have connections to the oil, gas and tourism industries....
Bird Society Leads by Example: Operates Large Wind Turbine at Headquarters
June 22, 2016 - By Paul Gipe In early 2016, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) installed a large wind turbine at their headquarters in central England. The 100-meter (330-foot)...
Sarah Taylor
Sarah is doing everything she can to encourage the North-East Ohio region to profit from its greatest unused resource, namely the strong, steady winds that blow across Lake Erie. Starting in 2006, she has been vigorously spreading the word to city leaders, companies, organizations and individuals.
Coining the phrase “Windustrious Cleveland”, she commissioned Dennis Yurich to make a brief movie to illustrate Cleveland’s progression from industrial eminence through to its current cultural and technological expertise, and then on to its re-invigorated manufacturing future.
Dennis Yurich’s creation, symbolizing in 40 seconds, the city’s move from “Industrious to Illustrious to Windustrious” can be seen HERE. A recent video he created illustrates Our Windustrious Future.
Jim Henke described Sarah’s effort in the December 2015 edition of the Heights Observer.
Jeff Moyer
Jeff helped to promote the Windustrious Cleveland effort, from the beginning, by writing, recording and performing the song “Wind on the Water”. Here he is performing the song at Ingenuity Fest in Cleveland, in 2007.
Click to read more about Jeff.
Moyer is a true renaissance man – songwriter, producer, author, historian, passionate public speaker, publisher, and champion of the dignity of all people.
The name “Music from the Heart”, Jeff Moyer’s publishing company, describes his life’s work. For half a century, this award winning songwriter has written, recorded and performed songs that speak to what Jeff calls, “matters of consequence in the human condition.” http://www.jeffmoyer.com/
Dennis Yurich
Dennis has been essential to the formation, and the evolution, of the Windustrious Cleveland project, by creating the various motion graphics and videos, as well as the designing and the updating of the Windustrious website itself.
Specializing in business videos, Dennis and his wife, Beth, began Yurich Creative in 1997 and have worked with large and small clients, including: Judson Services, Inc.; Celebrate Vitamins; Target Optical; PNC Wealth management; Kaleidoscope Magazine; Tri C, Case Western Reserve University; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum; and the Wassenberg Art Center.
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