September 11 - Kick-off Event
Dinner Meeting with Optional Tour of McCormick Motors, Inc.
6:30 p.m. Amish Acres Restaurant Barn
1600 W. Market St., Nappanee
"Making Cents of Energy"
Jerrell Ross Richer, Goshen College Associate Professor of Economics
Gordon Moore, Vice President for McCormick Motors, Inc.
McCormick
Motors, Inc., is very much interested, invested, and innovative in
renewable energy. USA Today recognized the organization with an award
for energy innovation. Among other efforts, they have planted more
than 100 trees at the dealership in Nappanee and completed
feasibility studies for wind and solar power systems - and they've
seen cost benefits for their innvoation.
Now
McCormick Motors, Inc. and Goshen College have formed a educational
and environmental partnership with the goal of becoming a small
business lab site of promoting energy conservation and
environmentally friendly practices. The partnership began this Spring
as part of a May term senior seminar class project. On Thursday,
September 11, Gordon Moore, Vice President of McCormick Motors, and
Jerrell Ross Richer, Associate Professor of Economics at Goshen
College, will give their presentation, “Making Cents of Energy,”
at our fall kick-off event.
Gordon
will tell the story of what motivated him to begin investing in
energy efficiency at McCormick Motors, Inc., how he made it happen,
and what benefits have resulted. He will discuss renewable energy
technologies in a small business context and will talk about the role
of public policy in the renewable energy industry as well as next
steps small businesses can take.
Jerrell
will talk about how market forces (higher oil and gasoline prices in
particular) are affecting the economy and how this provides an
opportunity to invest in new technologies. He will demonstrate a
financial calculator that he and his students created to estimate the
financial costs and benefits of investing in renewable energy
technology at McCormick Motors, Inc.
