Most people wouldn't expect this to be a fitting motto for oil-town Houston.
The City of Houston buys a lot of wind power.
Houston is on the fast track to becoming the alternative energy capital of the world, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
We want to make sure you read that right. Not the alternative energy capital as in the understudy to, say, Amsterdam. We're gunning to be the capital of alternative energy!
The news comes with the EPA's announcement of its top 50 green power partners, a collection of energy-efficient organizations that includes companies, universities and local governments. Houston was named the number one municipal purchaser of green power and the fourth largest purchaser in the entire country — behind only Intel, Kohl's Department Store and Whole Foods.
Although it's hard to believe on sticky, stagnant days when we're praying for a breeze, 32 percent of the city's entire electricity load currently runs on wind energy. The city plans to purchase even more renewable energy and develop new means of harnessing solar energy.
Take, that Dallas!
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