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Repost from: VPR April 23, 2012 Shelburne’s Town Manager Paul Boehne has got that certain sense of humor that can only come from time spent at seemingly endless select board meetings debating the exact placement of municipal streetlights. “Except for dealing with dogs and leash laws, this would be the most controversial project that we [...]

The series airs on Wednesdays April 25 through May 2 at 10 p.m. on Vermont Public Television. CVPS Cow Power™ will be a topic of discussion on a new PBS series, ‘America Revealed.”  The Blue Spruce Farm, the first CVPS Cow Power™ farm producer, will be featured during the series’ third episode, which is scheduled [...]

Reposted from: New York Times 4/9/12 It was described by one participant as a “party for engineers”: a conference of more than 500 specialists brainstorming about a grid so powerful that New York State could embrace wind power, cut electricity rates and close the Indian Point nuclear plant.  Yet many participants emphasized obstacles and uncertainties [...]

Repost from: VT Digger  04/12/2012 Gov. Peter Shumlin stepped away from the podium at his weekly news conference Wednesday, allowing state and federal geologists to display new maps of Vermont’s literal foundation, including bedrock which has been around for 1.4 billion years and scattered deposits of hard, flinty, granite. After the geologists left the room, [...]

            _ _______________________ Dear Renewable Energy Supporter, The Clean Energy Development Fund is a vital program for promoting local jobs and local renewable investment. H. 782, which is currently being considered in the Senate, will only provide $1.5 million per year for the CEDF – not enough to sustain a [...]

Reposted from: New York Times 4/11/12 Constellation Energy keeps a list of buildings that would benefit from energy efficiency improvements, and it has identified an unusual candidate near the top: prisons. Their lights, heat and air-conditioning run 24 hours a day. “If you looked at a similarly sized commercial building, its usage would probably be [...]

Reposted from: New York Times  4/11/12 When Max Dunn walks through his kitchen in San Jose, Calif., he often glances at the home energy monitor that sits on the counter top. The monitor resembles a car’s GPS device and connects wirelessly to the home’s power meter. The display tells him at any given moment how [...]

Reposted from: WCAX 4/11/2012 The owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant are disputing whether they should have to make payments to the state’s clean energy fund. Click here for more information: WCAX

Reposted from: VPR  4/9/12   State environmental officials are continuing to float the idea of building a renewable energy project on the site of the abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell.  Voters in the towns refused last month to declare the mine a Superfund site, which would have provided money to clean it up. Click [...]

Sunnybrook Farms Project Goal: No fossil fuel, re/use materials from site, use local natural materials, heat with less than 1 chord of wood, keep traditional feel of farmhouse with new touch. Scope of Work: Major Gut and rehab. – Disassemble 1/2 of barn and stabilize the other 1/2 – permacultural landscape Distinctive Green Building Strategies: [...]