<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><font color="#020202"><br></font></div></div></div><div><div><font color="#020202">Begin forwarded message:</font></div><font color="#020202"><br></font><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font color="#020202"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font color="#020202"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Solar equipment group purchase - Dec 2nd, 9th, etc. info sessions</b><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font color="#020202"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">November 29, 2015 11:34:12 PM CST<br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font color="#020202"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><a href="mailto:IL-PRAIRIE-ALERTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG" target="_blank">IL-PRAIRIE-ALERTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG</a><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font color="#020202"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>><br></span></font></div><font color="#020202"><br></font><div><font color="#020202">If you might consider putting solar panels on your home/business/farm,<br>and you're in Champaign County, this may interest you.<br><br>    <a href="http://www.growsolar.org/solar-urbana-champaign/" target="_blank">http://www.growsolar.org/solar-urbana-champaign/</a><br><br>The city of Urbana has arranged with nonprofit Midwest Renewable Energy<br>Association for a group purchase of solar electric equipment.<br>Anyone in Champaign County may buy in, between now and the end of March,<br>2016.   The aim of the group purchase, besides sharing information, is<br>to get a better price than any single purchaser could.<br><br>There'll be a series of one-hour public information sessions ("solar<br>power hours") over the coming months, beginning with:<br><br>    6pm Wednesday, Dec 2nd, at Common Ground Food Co-op, on the Vine St<br>side of Lincoln Square Mall, Urbana<br>and<br>    6pm Wednesday, Dec 9th, at Independent Media Center, 202 S.<br>Broadway, Urbana<br>and<br>    noon Thursday, Dec 17th, Champaign County Sustainability Network,<br>1817 S. Neil St, Champaign<br><br>Notes:<br>   - This isn't an official endorsement by the Sierra Club.<br>   - Several sorts of financing may be available, including Illinois and<br>Federal tax credits; conventional bank loans; and possibly PACE loans,<br>or USDA REAP assistance<br>   - There is at least one local installer involved, probably more than one<br>   - Jack Paxton, whom some of us know, has already gotten an estimate<br>on installing solar panels on their house in Urbana<br><br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br><br></font></div></blockquote></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>