
Nevada's Choice: Clean solar jobs or more Coal-triggered asthmas
Entrepreneur Chris Brooks was working as an electrician in Las Vegas when one day in 2001, he said "a bolt of lightning came down and hit him." While working in the broiling desert heat on new construction, he wondered aloud as to why none of the homes were taking advantage of the punishing sunlight that shines on Nevada 300 days of the year. In that moment Brooks decided he would bring solar energy to Nevada. Read more.