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From Glass City to Solar City: Toledo Ohio reinvents itself

JUN 16, 2010
Physics Today
USA Today : A cluster of high-tech startup companies has grown up in Toledo, Ohio. Focused on solar power and other clean energy technologies, the new companies are helping to restore the city’s once-famous manufacturing industry, which had fallen behind healthcare as the major employer. The transformation isn’t entirely radical. Despite its rust-belt status, Toledo remained a center for the production of a key component of solar panels, glass.
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