I’ll admit it. I’m rooting for Estherville, Iowa, a small town with a green vision for its future.
It’s out in the middle of what most folks would consider nowhere — northwest Iowa. Although I’ve never been to Estherville, I travel through the surrounding area several times a year. There’s not much there besides farms and the occasional market town.
Yet Estherville somehow has a daily paper, and that daily paper is chockful of hope for the town becoming a center of the wind industry.
Today’s happy Estherville news: two students from the wind energy technology program at the local community college are featured in a national Duracell battery commercial. One’s a former coal miner.
