 | Tennessee, a socially conservative southeastern US state and one of the more politically "red" states in America, has actively acquired renewable energy businesses. Public-private partnerships in the Volunteer State have challenged existing socio-political stereotypes by creating projects and / or hosting firms developing next generation solar, ethanol, biomass, and wind energies. While pleasing to sustainably-based green job advocates, Tennesseans frustrate environmentalists by also continuing to support nuclear power plant construction, historic Appalachian Mountain coal extraction, and the state's half-century of hydroelectric energy generation. How can a state's paradoxical energy economy help to more clearly define green jobs and regional sustainable economics? Is it possible that a coal, nuclear, and renewable energy state be held out as a model of sustainability? This paper argues that the past decade of struggles by Tennesseeans in the wake of painful natural and anthropogenic climate change (longer term, state-wide droughts, epic flooding including the city of Nashville's flood in 2010, and historically higher temperatures) is developing a new and powerful cultural narrative of experiences that the climate of local natural spaces in Tennessee are behaving differently now - and not behaving better - than during their grandparent's time. This experiential oral history, a powerful part of Tennessee culture, will be the tipping point in convincing conservative state <b>...</b> | From:CGPublishing Views: 1  0 ratings |
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