To request copies of the EnergySmart Schools Solutions CD, email Judy Dyer. 
judith.dyer@netl.doe.gov
Ask for the ‘Get Smart About Energy CD’
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EnergySmart Schools mean healthier children and teachers – and a healthy planet. They also save money for America’s school districts.
Why EnergySmart Schools?
Learn more at:
www1.eere.energy.gov/
Categories : Education, Green building, for Students, for Teachers
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You’ll find that you have several options to consider when selecting what type of lighting you should usein your home.
When selecting energy-efficient lighting, it’s a good idea to understand basic lighting terms and principles. Also, it helps to explore your lighting options for indoors and/or outdoors if you haven’t already. This will help narrow your selection.
Types of lighting include:
* Fluorescent lighting
* High-intensity discharge lighting
* Incandescent lighting
* Low-pressure sodium lighting
* Outdoor solar lighting
See more at: http://www.energysavers.gov/
Categories : Education, Green Tip, for Students, for Teachers
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A music video from the premiere mini album “Water Flavor EP”, from the Japanese band “Sour”, for the song “Hibi no Neiro” (Tone of everyday). The video was shot with webcams only, and the main protagonists are Sour fans from around the world.
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Using NSTAR’s average rates, this online tool calculates the energy use and approximate monthly cost of several common household appliances, defaulting to typical use and wattage. However you can change these figures after selecting an appliance.
http://www.nstaronline.com/residential/energy_efficiency/energy_calculator.asp
We have harnessed the wind’s energy for hundreds of years—from windmills that pump water or grind grain to today’s wind turbines that generate electricity.
If you live on at least one acre of land with an ample wind resource, you can generate your own electricity using a small wind electric system. You can also use a small wind turbine for pumping water.
You may have the opportunity now or in the future to buy clean electricity from a wind power plant.
Categories : Green energy, wind
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Step outside on a hot, sunny day, and you’ll experience the power of the sun’s heat and the light. That’s solar energy.
You can use solar energy to do the following:
- Heat your home through passive solar design or an active solar heating system
- Generate your own electricity
- Heat water in your home or swimming pool
- Light your home both indoors and outdoors
- Dry your clothes. Use a clothesline to reduce the energy consumed by your clothes dryer.
To enable your use of solar energy for these purposes, your community may have established solar access planning guidelines and/or ordinances.
If you live in the southwestern United States, you may even have the opportunity now or in the future to buy clean electricity from a concentrating solar power plant.
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- Commits the state to buying green vehicles to replace older vehicles.
- Adds specific green building requirements for new construction by the state.
- Creates an office of Ratepayer Advocacy on behalf of all utility ratepayers
- Provides home energy audit info to home buyers
- Initiates a state cap and trade system
- Adds on a charge to untility bills to pay for energy efficiency programs by the state
- Creates an energy efficiency advisory council which shall consist of 11 members, including 1 person representing each of the following:
- residential consumers
- the low-income weatherization and fuel assistance program network
- the environmental community
- businesses, including large C&I end-users
- the manufacturing industry
- energy efficiency experts
- organized labor
- the department of environmental protection
- the attorney general
- the executive office of housing and economic development
- the department of energy resources.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw08/sl080169.htm
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Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) has begun an ambitious effort to train teachers in solar energy education. Cities and towns that have committed to 20% clean energy by 2010 are eligible to send up to two teachers to workshops focused on solar energy education at the 9th grade level. more at CCEF site…
Urban Sustainable Living with Patti Moreno & friends. Companion planting what the Iroquois valued as the sustainers of life: beans, corn, and squash. Watch the video and learn how to plant them in a raised bed.
Garden Girl TV: Raised bed planting
Categories : Gardening, city gardens
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Welcome to Green Hat Dog
Green Hat Dog lives for the smell of fresh grass, clean air, open space to run, and lots of interesting animals to smell, look at and wonder about.
He likes humans too. Happy humans. He's our inspiration to want to clean up our planet and make it a place where he would really, really like to live. We gave him a hat and made him our leader.
You're invited to come along, share your ideas and inspiration with us. Tell us about your hopes for our planet and the dogs who inspire you.
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