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Rebecca Otto on Environment

 

 


Home is passive solar, wind-powered, & superinsulated

Rebecca Otto may be Minnesota's "greenest politician," the StarTribune said in 2007. But the values of conservation are also the values that lead her to be fiscally conservative. She saves things and reuses them. Like old coffee cans full of nails that are perfectly good for reuse.

She and her husband Shawn live in a passive solar, wind-powered, superinsulated renewable energy home that they designed and built with their own hands. It's conservative in the sense of conserving: that old, cautious, prudent, careful, Minnesota value that Garrison Keillor talks about, where efficiency is a virtue.

Applying these conservative values to her work as State Auditor, Rebecca released a Best Practices Review on steps to best practices on how local governments can reduce energy costs. The report helped them be successful whether they were doing a simple lighting retrofit, or they were building a LEED-certified building.

Source: Minnesota State Auditor campaign website RebeccaOtto.com , Nov 1, 2014

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(retiring 2018)
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(retiring 2018)
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(term-limited 2018)
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(term-limited 2018)
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(term-limited 2018)
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