Green Energy Times

When homes use less energy (especially in Maine which relies on home heating oil) they use less fossil fuels, so they emit less greenhouse gases.

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/12v8R)

We have until 2017 to get our carbon emissions down!

… burning coal from the proposed mine would also be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, which experts say are now growing faster than previously anticipated worst case scenarios.

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!

a new website where everyone affected by Irene can tell their story…

After nearly three decades in the electric business, I thought I’d seen it all, but never have I seen a response to tragedy quite like the response to the remnants of Hurricane Irene.

Less than 800 CVPS customer remain without power in Windsor, Windham and Orange counties… Many of the areas left to restore power also require rebuilding entire sections of line in new locations due to washouts…

as you dig out and rebuild, from all the devastation of ‘Irene’s path. Now is a good time to think a bit more seriously of the benefit of renewable energies…

In a landslide vote, the voters in Montpelier gave the go-ahead for the next step toward expanding the Capitol district heating plant to encompass more of the city, allowing local businesses to join the heating district to save money on heat, while enabling the city control the cost of heat. Tax payers in the city [...]

There is more bad news today from the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiiachi Nuclear plant in Japan. Much of the US news media is either failing to cover it, or has it buried (in places like page 3 of section D of the paper). So, for the latest info, I turned to Twitter, a tool [...]