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Cash for Coal Clunkers – New VT $ Incentives

The Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF) announces a new program to help homeowners and businesses convert from old coal to new wood pellet heating. Beginning today the CEDF offers up to $10,000 to Vermonters still heating with coal. The new Coal Change-out Incentive Adder is designed to encourage the few home and business owners in […]

Benefits to the Planet Heating with Forest Products

And how it is done sustainably

Jim Van Valkenburgh

You have probably talked to people with opposing views on using trees for energy. One says it is sustainable and another says it is not. (“It’s worse than coal!”) I propose that both can be right depending on where they are in the U.S. or the […]

Five Reasons Radiant Heating Is the Right Choice for Healthful Homes

 

Underfloor heating pipes. Wikimedia Commons/A. Raab

Steve Swanson

Providing superior indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is top-of-mind for consumers, who understand health starts in the home.

While hydronic radiant heating has been around since the Roman times and has been the main form of heating homes throughout Europe for decades, the United […]

INRS Leading “NH Rural Renewables” Modern Wood Heat Assistance for Small Businesses

NH Rural Renewables is a team of energy professionals who provide no-cost, vendor-neutral technical assistance to rural NH small businesses for solar PV, energy efficiency and modern wood heat. NHRR is a program of Lakes Region Community College.

INRS is serving as technical assistance expert for small businesses and agricultural enterprises that want to consider […]

Tasker Hill Community Garden, Madison, NH

Community garden with rented beds at the right and CSA beds to the left. Courtesy photos.

Russ Lanoie

For over ten years we have hosted a small community garden on our property here in Madison, NH just south of Conway Village in the Mount Washington Valley (MWV). The garden consists of 27 individual […]

Here Comes the Sun

The lush summer greens gradually yield to yellow and orange.

A dazzling display of visual warmth to tide us over until Spring.

Speaking of great Beatles’ songs, another one comes to mind.

The sunflowers and photo Peter used for this painting are compliments of […]

New Vermont Brewery Celebrates Opening

Features Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

Cellar view with serving tanks on the left and fermentation tanks on the right. Courtesy images.

Reprinted with permission from Efficiency Vermont’s July 15, 2020 blog.

Chris Kesler and the Black Flannel Brewing Company team are committed to starting a business that lives the team’s […]

Coming Attractions in Greenhouse Energy Efficiency

Greenhouse

Mike Stiles Ph.D.

Hello, greetings from the front lines of Green Greenhouses. By way of introduction, I’ve consulted with the electric and natural gas utility National Grid in upstate New York for the last several years. I’ve developed methods for quantifying the energy impacts of greenhouse efficiency measures for National Grid’s incentive […]

Climbing out of the Crisis: a Net-Zero Economy

Wind Lift I, a jack-up ship for installing offshore wind turbines. Photo by kaʁstn, Wikimedia Commons https://bit.ly/30TU3v8.

George Harvey

The German Institute for Economic Research, usually called the DIW Berlin from its name in German, is a non-profit economic research institution funded by the country’s federal government. In early July, it […]

Despite COVID-19, More Than Half of Cleantech Firms Planning to Recruit in 2020

Hyperion Executive Search Surveyed Impact of COVID-19 on Cleantech

AUSTIN – Results from a recent survey conducted by Hyperion Executive Search, a global talent acquisition company that works exclusively with clean energy and e-mobility, found that despite COVID-19, most cleantech companies plan to expand in 2020. Sixty one percent (61%) of the cleantech firms […]