Mark your calendar. See Winter Panel, from Brattleboro, VT, on ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition two hour special Sunday February 14, 2010 at 8:00 PM. Check out our blog for great video clips of the installation and an interview with Bill Wachtler of SIPA. http://winterpanel.wordpress.com
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Climate Cover-up: the crusade to deny global warmingJames Hoggan with Richard Littlemore. Greystone Books. 2009. 250pp.This very timely book is essential reading for those bewildered by the recent backlash against climate science. It takes things back to basics, and rather than being an exploration of the climate science itself, it seeks to equip the reader with the tools to be able to distinguish between the sources of climate-related information. If you want to board an aeroplane, but were told by a large group of aeronautical engineers that the plane was 90% certain to crash upon take-off, would you listen to them, or to a small group, comprising a PR consultant, a botanist and a plumber, who presented as evidence an articlefrom Readers Digest magazine? The debate as to whether climate change is happening or not, and the need felt by media organisations to always present ‘both sides’, was over several years ago, yet since just before Copenhagen, contrarianism is back, and is back bigtime. So who are these people? Are “Planning for the Long Emergency, talk by Director of Vermont Emergency Management in Montpelier” on Transition VermontTime: February 18, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm Location: Kellogg Hubbard Library Organized By: Transition Town Montpelier and Kellogg Hubbard LibraryEvent Description: http://transitionvermont.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2432395%3AEvent%3A20637&xgi=0K3W5YkVP7p90I&xg_source=msg_invite_event What is Permaculture? An Introductory Workshop by Steve Whitman February 9th, 6:30-8:30 pm In the Vermont Room of the Hotel CoolidgeCome and learn what permaculture is all about and why it is important to you and your community. How does permaculture differ from other approaches to sustainable land use? This session is especially useful for homeowners, community organizers, design professionals, farmers, and gardeners. If you are working toward a sustainable future and want practical tools and applicable methodologies, then this session is for you! Permaculture is a framework for working toward greater sustainability that uses ecological principles to integrate food and energy production, structures, and community. Its aim is the creation of sustainable human settlements that are harmoniously woven into the environment and that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. Steve Whitman is a professional planner and certified Permaculture Designer. Additionally, during the past six years, Steve has been teaching international field-study courses in sustainability, permaculture, and ecovillage design. We hope to see you there.~TTWRJ Steering Committee
The movie “In Transition 1.0″ http://transitionculture.org/in-transition/
will be shown at the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction February 4th 7:00-9:00 pm “In Transition 1.0″ is the first detailed film about the Transition Town movement filmed by those who know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement includes communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humor. It is positive, solutions-focused, viral and fun. As usual, Cookies and juice will be provided (bring your cup). $3 suggested donation. January 27, 2010 When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was passed last year I wondered (probably like many others) where exactly the $787 billion would end up. I never imagined I would be seeing the flow of that money on a daily basis as early as the end of 2009. But it’s true! As an employee in the renewable energy sector, I encounter projects of all shapes and sizes which are recipients of ARRA funds. Some of these funds have been appropriated specifically to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency measures, and energy conservation. For example, over $49 billion has been awarded to municipalities, community action groups, and government entities throughout Vermont – and this is only through the Department of Energy.(1) This includes millions of dollars going directly to Vermont’s Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF) and the Small Scale Renewable Energy Incentive. These programs support business, non-profits, and residences alike.(2) Other grants and loans for low-income housing, education, and research also indirectly support the renewable energy market when these entities choose to take a green approach to new construction or facility upgrades. As of today, the government reports that just over half (58%) of the total funds expected to be allotted as loans, grants, and contracts has been awarded. That means there is still over $1 billion waiting to be claimed.(2) If you are a business owner, a farmer, an investor, a member of a local energy committee, or even just a home owner, NOW is the time to take advantage of these fast-moving dollars. If you have ever dreamed of starting a solar farm to power your whole town, or even just dreamed of clean energy for your home, now is the best time to make that investment while our government is supporting our green energy goals. ReKnew Energy Systems, Inc. of South Royalton is happy to help you find the right funds for your project or home. ARRA funds in part help support our employees who are year-round, permanent, local workers. By Shasta Small (ReKnew Energy Systems, Inc., HYPERLINK “http://www.reknew.net” www.ReKnew.net, 866-312-7673) Links: Track the stimulus money at: VT Dept. Public Svc. (CEDF) Renewable Energy Vermont (incentives) Renewable Energy Resource Center (incentives) References: Look for us in your favorite locations (we try keep them out there for you, but are finding it difficult to keep them in stock at many locations!) or assure yourself of finding a copy and subscribe to have it delivered right to your mailbox. You can do this right on our site on the Advertising Page. For any companies that would like to have your message in this upcoming issue, we need to hear from you soon, to make this important issue!!! You can go to the Advertising Page and reserve your adspace or contact us by email or tele: nancy@greenenergytimes.org 802.439.6675. Don’t wait until it is too late! We only come out four (4) times a year! We want to hear from you! • Energy Committees: what your accomplishments and plans are! • Events & Happenings • Your story of what YOU have done to personally lessen your carbon footprint, big and small – it all counts! • News, views – as long as it is related in some way to renewable energy, energy reduction… • Ideas, suggestions Shut Down Vermont YankeeSubmitted to Green Energy Times on 25 January, 2010, by a reader. This is an opinion from someone who is concerned with this issue, due his living in fairly close proximity to VY. We welcome your opinions and comments, as well. Green Energy Times is happy to print your issues on our site, but we want to let it be known that this does not necessarily mean that we endorse them. We want to hear from ALL of you! Send in your comments! < Plagued by a transformer fire, the repeated collapse of cooling towers, reports of workers showing up under the influence of drugs and alcohol, increases in fenceline radiation levels, cracked components, stuck valves leading to emergency shutdowns, and excess radiation exposure of workers, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is now engaged in damage control over the latest news: On January 7th, VY spokesman Rob Williams released data on elevated levels of a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, found in a test well on the Vernon reactor site, that show a plume of tritium has been leaking into the groundwater around the plant and is now migrating toward the Connecticut River.“There is no danger to the public,” assured Williams last week, but people living near the reactor are fed up with the blandishments of public relations flaks. They want the Vermont state legislature to reject a bid by Vermont Yankee for a 20-year license extension at the accident prone plant, and they walked 125 miles through the dead of winter to Montpelier with one demand. > Shut Down Vermont YankeeBy David Detmold Transition Putney is hosting our first public event. Bring your Family and Neighbors Please spread the word as a public service announcement TClarkFlyerDaniel Hoviss, Putney VT 802 387 4141 SC10- Tina Clarke Bio * Tina Clarke has been an advocate, educator, consultant, and director of nonprofit programs since 1985. She is currently a consultant with Bill McKibben’s global 350.org initiative http://350.org/ and the Sustainability Institute. http://www.sustainer.org/ She has been providing professional training and support for community leaders and environmental campaigns for over 20 years. In Washington, D.C. she directed national citizen advocacy training programs for faith communities, and directed Greenpeace USA’s citizen activist network. She has consulted with over 400 NGOs on citizen campaigns and environmental issues. In Massachusetts she directed a regional nonprofit assistance center, training NGO leaders in strategic planning and organizational development. As a Campaign Director for Clean Water Action, she initiated and helped lead coalitions on environmental justice, toxins and energy. Tina has an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a B.A. in urban studies from Macalester College, and is certified for consensus process facilitation and mediation. She is popular speaker on energy and environmental issues, creative frugality, and developing coalitions and strategic campaigns. Currently she advises leaders in a half-dozen communities launching Transition Town Initiatives. Tina lives in a below-zero energy, passive solar-heated, Platiunm LEED, low-toxic “Power House” that she helped design and build. In 2009 the home won the Massachusetts utility company-sponsored competition, the Zero Energy Challenge. http://www.zechallenge.com/” \t “_blank email: tinaclarke2@comcast.net Location: Turner Falls, MA, USA |
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