Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

A Pollution Solution:

Copeland Furniture Solar Update

The 500kW solar installation is meeting expectations for Copeland Furniture’s manufacturing plant in Bradford, VT. Catamount Solar installed the system. The plant is seen in the upper left corner. Photo: Isaac Copeland.

By N. R. Mallery

The August issue of Green Energy Times led with an article […]

The Bondville Solar Farm

How do four Vermonters put together a solar farm?

Aerial view of solar farm. Photo courtesy of Joshua Wylie.

By George Harvey

The Bondville Solar Farm is named for the unincorporated hamlet of Bondville, which is part of Winhall, Vermont, in the south-central part of the state. It started in January […]

Two Utilities Are Stowe-ing Away Impressive Solar

Progress in Lamoille County, Vermont

Hyde Park solar array, developed by Encore Renewables, based in Burlington, Vermont. Photos courtesy of Encore Renewables.

By Green Energy Times Staff

A lot has been going on in Lamoille County, Vermont. The Electric Departments of Stowe and Hyde Park have both commissioned solar arrays, each […]

A Carbon Campaign Warrant:

To See if the Town will Support Policies Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions to a Sustainable 3 Tons Per Person Per Year

Whereas carbon dioxide released from combustion of fossil fuels beyond sustainable levels maintained by soil, forests, and oceans, poses an existential threat to our Town and to all Towns;

and

Whereas we can […]

The Coradia iLint Train

is just a rollin’ down the tracks……

The Alston Coradia iLint has reduced train emissions to almost nothing as a light, innovative, local rail vehicle. Alston photo

By George Harvey

Things have changed since the old days, when coal-powered steam engines chugged through the countryside, polluting everything in sight and […]

Transportation Emissions Up

Electric Cars and Renewable Energy Set to Reverse the Trend

By David Roberts

Transitioning to more efficient and renewably powered transportation is a fundamental step to reducing one of the northeast region’s largest sources greenhouse gases (GHG) and other harmful pollutants. As evidence of the need for transportation action, the chart below […]

Streamlining Efficiency in Corporate Fleets

Hybrid powered Coca-Cola delivery truck in Washington, D.C. will be the type of vehicle that will come into greater use with new mandates regarding mid to large size vehicles. (Photo by Mariordo. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Hope O’Shaughnessy

Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Transportation Safety Board […]

Solutions: A Carbon Campaign

A Proposal for Sustainable Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Roy Morrison. This picture was taken in a tropical rainforest. Photo taken by his wife, Luanne Bakero

By Roy Morrison

The following is a grassroots campaign to support a sustainable global carbon dioxide emissions standard of three tons of carbon dioxide per person […]

Local Schools are Going Solar

Rooftop solar system on Kumball Union Academy’s Miller Bicentennial Hall. Meridan, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of Norwich Technologies

With Help from Norwich Technologies

By N. R. Mallery

Norwich Technologies has been long interested in education as a driving force for widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. It comes as no surprise […]

The Paris Accord Is Now the Law

United States Secretary of State John Kerry signed the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016 with his granddaughter in his arms. Photo: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard/CC BY-ND (Flickr)

This is What Momentum Feels Like

By Carl Pope

For years climate reporting had two strands. On the one hand, climate science got more alarming as […]