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Cleveland is a green city on a blue lake – and that includes its energy! Join us on Thursday afternoon for a tour of downtown Cleveland’s green buildings and renewable energy sites. Our first stop will be the 150-foot wind turbine installed on the lakefront at the Great Lakes Science Center. The turbine’s peak output of 225 kilowatts provides an estimated seven percent of the Science Center’s annual electricity needs - and also demonstrates wind power technology and educates visitors in the benefits of green energy to the region. Hear from Green Energy Ohio about the tallest wind monitor on any of the Great Lakes, installed on the water intake crib for the City of Cleveland three-point-five miles offshore. We’ll tour the Cleveland EcoVillage, where twenty green town-homes are almost zero energy consumers with three 3.84 kilowatt solar panel arrays and one 2.4 kilowatt array installed. The tour will continue with a visit to the Cleveland Environmental Center, a green retrofit of a historic bank building that is a multi-tenant nonprofit center. The Environmental Center is seeking LEED certification and includes geothermal heating and cooling, a green roof, and a 4.1 kilowatt solar array. The Entrepreneurs for Sustainability will tell us about the Northeast Ohio Solar Challenge, which aims to add one megawatt of PV installations in Northeast Ohio by July 2007.