Posted by CES Blog 9 months ago.
The City of Portland and Multnomah County have created a step-by-step resource guide to help local government agencies integrate sustainability into their policies, programs and operations. The guide is premised on the notion that local governments can ...
Posted by CES Blog 10 months ago.
I discovered an interesting web site at work today that provides a simple tool to help homeowners and others calculate the payback time and return on investment of dozens of energy-saving and other green products for residential buildings. I havent trie...
Posted by CES Blog 10 months ago.
With the end of the holiday season, Im trying to catch up with a backlog of environmental news items from around the country. I wanted to highlight two interesting news stories I ran across yesterday. One article was published in Farmweek, a weekly p...
Posted by CES Blog 11 months ago.
A consortium of local governments, non-profit organizations, government agencies and utilities has launched a web-based resource that includes strategies, tips and tools to help local governments take action on global climate change. The focus is on gree...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Gifts that consume few natural resources and create little waste: Movie, theater, or concert tickets Gift certificate for a furnace tune up, insulation, or programmable thermostat Memberships in groups, societies, etc. of the persons interest A co...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Have you noticed that more and more people are decorating with holiday lights throughout the year This can add to your monthly energy bills, especially as electricity rates climb. If its time to replace your old, tangled string of holiday lights, you...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Berkeley may become the first city in the nation to allow residential and commercial property owners to pay for the installation of solar photovoltaic panels through an increase in their property taxes. The purpose of the program is to make it easier fo...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Is your local school strapped for cash due to rising energy costs Working with three other institutions, the Alliance to Save Energy has produced a guidebook to help school districts develop an effective energy management plan. The guidebook lists ea...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Yesterday I attended CWLPs Community Energy Meeting at UIS. This was the sixth in a series of community meetings designed to update the public on the utilitys energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, and solicit suggestions and ideas on oppor...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
When I signed up for Blog Action Day, I had a vision of myself really pouring stuff out today--I'm in between jobs with nothing pressing on the horizon. Sadly, move-related stuff wound up trumping everything today, so here I am squeezing this into the las...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Halloween is just around the corner, but its not too late to think about ways to green this black and orange holiday. Here are 10 tips to get you started:1. If you decorate with lighting, look for LED holiday lights that use less energy, burn cooler a...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The first place to start in reducing your energy use has always been an energy audit. CWLP, which has long offered such audits, appears to have just revamped them a little bit by adding a money-back guarantee. This isn't your regular money-back guarantee,...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Coming out of the Schnucks on Chatham Road yesterday, I got stuck in congestion. Not vehicular congestion, this was a slow-moving conga line of shoppers. I veered out of the path, off to the right, preferring the longer walk at a faster pace to the slower...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Over 20 utilities and other organizations were recognized last week for their efforts to help customers reduce energy use and energy costs through energy efficiency. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a nonprofit research group based ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Ninety solar-powered homes and buildings across the state will be open for public tours on Saturday, October 6th, from 10 AM to 3 PM. The Illinois Solar Energy Association is sponsoring the event. The group has prepared a 28-page tour guidebook that you...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
My fellow CES blog contributor, Greg, will be moving to the City of Austin next month. Not only will we miss his thoughtful commentaries on this blog, but he has been responsible for spearheading Clean Energy Springfields efforts to promote better clea...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Up to now, the fight to slow global climate change has focused primarily on such things as increasing fuel economy for cars and trucks, boosting renewable energy technologies like wind and solar, making our buildings greener and cleaning up power plants. ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One of the problems with green building, and with renovations and rehabs in general, is that you produce a lot of waste, and you have to be dedicated to extracting the re-usable bits to do anything with it. (The horrible pile of crap left over from the Am...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
U.S. EPA recently updated its Top 25 Green Power Purchasers list, which highlights organizations buying energy produced from renewable resources like wind, solar and biomass. The top five purchasers are PepsiCo, Wells Fargo and Company, Whole Foods Mark...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
This isn't strictly a climate change or energy issue, but it's all one thing, really, so: the SJR reports this morning on the steep drop in numbers of common birds--whippoorwills are the prime example. This harkens back to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--t...
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