How did one of Jimmy Carter’s solar panels wind up in Takoma Park?
and author of such books as “The End of Nature,” wanted to press the Obama administration to get cooking on a climate bill.
“Bill said, ‘I know what we'll do. We'll grab one of the [solar] collectors off the roof, put it in a van, and drive it down from Maine to Washington, stopping along the way to have rallies,’” said Tidwell. “They did this road show all the way down to the White House.”recognized it. He’d been involved with its installation in 1979 when he worked for a small solar company.Old solar panels are somewhat ungainly.
A month after McKibben brought the panel to Washington, the Obama administration announced new panels and a solar hot water heater would be installed at the residence. “Better late than never — in truth, no one should ever have taken down the panels Jimmy Carter put on the roof way back in 1979,” McKibben told The Washington Post in 2013. “But it’s very good to know that once again the country’s most powerful address will be drawing some of that power from the sun.”“Yes,” he said.
Tidwell and McKibben are as active as ever. On Tuesday they were among activists who sat in rocking chairs, blocking entrances to downtown banks. Why rocking chairs?When Carter had the solar panels installed 44 years ago, he said the act would “either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”I’m taking some time off to collect nuts for Squirrel Week.
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