Tosa Green Summit Looks At Long-Term Solutions
Event provides opportunities for education on sustainable practices and products anyone can afford.
Paying to install solar panels on the roof of your home to cut your future energy bills is a matter of choice. Having enough exposure to the sun to make it worthwhile is not. But imagine you could admire your own shiny new panels atop a roof that does not belong to you, but that of a local business or community building, and arrange to share in the proceeds from the energy they produce. That is the vision of Mike Arney, who is helping organize the second Tosa Green Summit, to be held 5 to 8 p.m. next Wednesday at the Civic Center at Wauwatosa Avenue and North Avenue. “I can’t put solar panels on my roof," Arney said. "It’s too shady. But what if I could invest in panels on the high school, or (at) the new pool, or the grocery store?” That…
