Green Energy Times

Four companies received green awards from Efficiency VT at the recent “2012 Better Buildings By Design” conference in Burlington. Building Energy won in the “Best of the Best in Major Renovation” contest for rehabilitating an historic home located at 52 Drew Street in Burlington, VT.  Maclay Architects, Naylor & Breen Builders, and MSV Partners, LLC  [...]

paying them a performance bonus for wrecking the climate. We’ll never get to renewable energy if we keep handing gobs of money to oil and coal and gas. …we need to come out as strong as possible. Add your voice to a brand new effort to end fossil fuel subsidies…

“We need to get off the fossil fuel bandwagon that keeps us dependent on oil and contributes to climate change. The $113 billion in taxpayer handouts that oil, gas, and coal companies receive should be used to invest in green jobs. It’s time for this corporate welfare to end.”

Randolph Area Community Development corporation Looks At Biomass District Heat …makes sense for our region. …finding ways to reduce the long term use of energy resources within the town of Randolph, VT.

The Evolution of the Energy Co-op of VT From its origins as the Miller Oil Company to the diverse cooperative that it is today, the Energy Co-op of Vermont has sought to “Help Vermonters make their homes comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient”. Founded in September of 2000, the Energy Co-op has been oriented towards energy-efficiency and [...]

by N.R. Mallery While the Upper Valley Food Cooperative was officially incorporated in summer of 1976, it was actually born from a group of people that had a vision and a dedication, in 1970, the “Do It Store” started on Main St. in W. Lebanon, NH with a vision of an environmental center – a [...]

by Nicko Rubin Sprawling tendrils covered in lush green foliage, shroud clusters of grape sized, smooth skinned, green kiwi berries. Hardy Kiwi are one of a slew of highly nutritious hardy fruits from northern asia, which are well suited to our growing climate; seaberry, honey berry or haskaps, goji, and the controversial autumn olive (AKA [...]

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012 – 8:00-11:00  a.m. FAIR HAVEN Transfer Station, Fair Haven Avenue, Fair Haven Solid Waste Alliance Communities Receive Grant to Collect Household Hazardous Waste. The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation defines Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) as “common household products that exhibit the characteristics (toxic, corrosive, reactive, explosive, and flammable/ignitable) of hazardous waste.  [...]

Flame Retardants Need to Be Extinguished by Deborah DeMoulpied, Bona Fide Green Goods Flame retardants come in a multitude of names from long, multi-syllabic words to short, capitalized 3-letter acronyms. The most common ones,  polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and Deca have been around for decades since replacing the very toxic PCBs in the 70’s. There [...]

By Adam Fortier We find ourselves today constantly trying to make environmentally conscious choices while struggling with the costs of “going green”. Unfortunately, it seems that the ability to be green comes with a price tag that has many of us struggling between the moral choice and the affordable one. Reductions in your energy consumption [...]