Cleantechnica.com has an excellent blog post that describes the EPA’s release of a Google Earth mashup of potential sites for renewable energy sources to be built. The author does a good job describing what the map means.

There are many locations in Michigan that have potential. Of particular interest to me personally is the site in Kalamazoo that my grandfather worked at when it was a paper mill. It has long been shut down, but in his day, it was a thriving paper factory that employed a lot of people with decent wages for the day. Back then, they did not consider the long term effects of what they were doing. I think it would be an awesome thing for these sites, once a source of sustained pollution, to be transformed into renewable energy sites. The potential for green collar jobs at these sites will only help our economy and help us create our own energy.