Letters to the EditorPalm Beach Post
May 5, 2016
Let Lake Worth learn from mini city
Striving to find a creative and new way to solve the financial woes in Lake Worth has been illustrated recently by fifth-grade students at Hidden Oaks Elementary, who created a miniature city powered by renewable energy (“Students’ ‘Electric City’ teaches energy efficiency,” April 21.
The city commissioners and mayor should go and see this fine example of modern thinking. Instead of trying to sell our public assets (beach, parks and green spaces) to developers and sports billionaires, and creating more traffic and urban sprawl, free or cheap renewable power will attract businesses and higher wages to our community. The community would then thrive and prosper.
Let’s not waste this great example of progressive thinking from the minds of local children, who seem to understand what is needed to move us forward into the future.
JAMES THOMSON
LAKE WORTH
1 comment:
Great comment! If only they would listen. I think we may have something on the ballot in November concerning solar energy. I thought so many times during the height of our Great Recession--why couldn't we have organized a greening of our systems and shoring up our failing infrastructure to put those who lost jobs back to work. We are a consumer economy and consumers can't buy anything without an income source.
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