Green Energy Times

Both homes cut their energy use more than 30% through these programs.

At each home you will be able to talk with the homeowners about their experience through the process and learn what their home is like after the improvements.

Efficiency Vermont representatives will be at the Toth home to answer questions, provide child-care and award door prizes, including a grand prize drawing of a free home energy assessment open to all Vermont residents who visit!

Two regional composting toilets designers are teaming up to take composting toilets to a new level. “We’re making composting porta-potties: aka Porta-Posters, said Ben Goldberg and Abe Noe-Hays about this ingenious socially responsible new invention. What is the difference between these and an outhouse? Outhouses just dump waste into a hole in the ground where [...]

The newest issue of Green Energy Times (G.E.T.) – October 15, 2011 is available on-line and in a town near you this week!

Anybody that has ever moved a home or business knows that the $16 billion U.S. moving industry is based almost exclusively on the use of corrugated cardboard boxes.

To take advantage of tax credits for most home energy efficiency projects, do the work in 2011. By Dan Shapley For the past several years, the federal government has, as part of its economic stimulus spending, offered income tax credits for home improvement projects that improve energy efficiency. While the tax credits available in 2011 [...]

SolarFest is almost here! Looks like it’s going to be a GREAT weekend for SolarFest 2011!

[By Beach Babe in Florida, cross posted from here] In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, food safety, frugal living, public health, global food crisis and the immense contribution of meat/livestock production to climate change/ water and land depletion Animal products are important [...]

ARE YOU SAYING NO TO DRIVING A CAR? G.E.T. wants your story! In our next issue we’ll peer into the lives of real people who are learning to live without the everyday use of a car. How they do it. How well it works. What would make life easier. What needs to change in our [...]

Where: Pick up maps at Shelburne Town Gym When: May 14th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Shelburne Energy Committee has put together a fun day full of information and interactive learning about energy efficiency and renewable technologies for your home. Exhibits: When you pick up you home tour map at the Town Gym, [...]

When: Saturday April 30th, 8:15am – 5:00pm Where: Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee, Vermont Anyone who owns woodlands, and wants them to be well-managed into the future, faces a challenging question: how can owners and managers of forests establish a legacy for Vermont’s woodlands so they remain part of our landscape for years to come? A [...]