Lynchburgâs heroes were able to help several children fill their shopping carts with things they needed â and wanted â this holiday season.
During the fourth annual Shop with a Community Hero, an event put on by local nonprofit One Community, One Voice, 11 children from low-income neighborhoods were paired up with firefighters, first responders, health care workers and other âcommunity heroesâ who helped them shop at Walmart on Old Forest Road on Saturday morning.
Thanks to a partnership between One Community, One Voice and Walmart, each child was able to shop for $100 worth of gifts for themselves and their families. Slowly but surely, the children filled their carts with clothes, toys, games and gifts with their heroes by their sides.
Public charging stations are most heavily concentrated in the city’s more affluent neighborhoods, creating a chicken/egg scenario for electric car adoption
While electric vehicles are relatively uncommon in Chicago, city officials expect their popularity to grow dramatically in coming decades.
And while electric cars are registered throughout the city, they, along with the city’s charging stations, are most heavily concentrated in the city’s affluent and mostly white North Side. As of 2018, 70% of all public charging stations were located in just three community areas. By contrast, 47 of Chicago’s 77 community areas, largely on the city’s South Side and West Side, had no public charging stations at all.
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n Evansville, Indiana, the NAACP and IBEW are training
Black people for work in the clean energy industry, aiming for an equitable transition away from fossil fuels
By Audrey Henderson
Sidney Mobley was struggling. Mobley, a welder in Evansville, Indiana, had not done much welding in the past two years, because the company that represented his main source of work moved its operations to Italy. Faced with dwindling income and a nonworking vehicle, he moved in with his sister, picking up occasional welding work and other odd jobs wherever he could. “The type of welding I did [was] pressure welding,” he said. “I was making gas fired air conditioners. I’ve been working at different places. I worked at a place that welds tire metal rims for, like, Tora and Honda lawnmowers and stuff. It really wasn’t nothing complicated compared to making gas fired air conditioners.”