Iola has fallen behind Chanute and Fort Scott in the race to be the most energy efficient community in southeast Kansas, but Iola’s Take Charge! Challenge team isn’t losing sight of the prize.
The challenge, hosted by The Climate and Energy Project and the Kansas Energy Office, is a competition among 16 cities in the four regions of the state to see which can save the most energy and bring home $100,000 to be used for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project in their city.
But the prize money, provided through the 2008 stimulus bill, isn’t the…
City competes for green
