Green Energy Times

BuildingEnergy is the most established and most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high performance building conference in the region. Organized by the NESEA, it brings together architects, engineers, builders, policymakers… 3 days of networking, accredited educational sessions and a high-level trade show. Attracting participants from across the US and Europe…

by David Blitterdorf’s I was recently invited to visit New Zealand, and am writing now amidst the summer temperatures of February in the southern hemisphere. During this trip to one of the only countries to legislate itself a nuclear-free zone, I’ve been absorbing info on New Zealand’s renewable energy economy, and considering the inherent wastefulness [...]

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…