Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs Clean Air-Cool Planet agrees with Governor Lynch’s veto of SB154, the Shoreland Protection Act, which had been amended by the House as part of the House leadership’s repeated attempts to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in New Hampshire. The Governor’s [...]
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Thumbs up to Governor’s Thumbs Down
July 6, 2011Keeping Warm and Saving Energy in Tarrytown, NY
June 6, 2011By Susan Schwartz, Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council Tarrytown, New York, has, thanks to a generous grant from the Community Catalyst Fund, embarked on a Neighbor to Neighbor Keep Warm/Save Energy project designed to reach residents where they live. With help as well from NYSERDA and Con Ed, we are setting up events in a variety [...]
Sustainable Development in New York’s Capital Region
June 6, 2011By Patrick Clear, Executive Director, ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse On March 4, over 140 people took part in the third Sustainable Development in the Capital Region of New York Conference, held at Union College in Schenectady, New York. It was titled “Toward a Sustainable Future,” and aimed at educating those on the front lines of [...]
Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization Celebrates with Cleanup and Greenfest
June 3, 2011By Alicia Dewey, Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization The Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization (TIYLO) celebrated the 41st anniversary of Earth Day with its annual Community Clean Up and “Green Fest” Saturday, April 30th at the Cerow Recreation Park in Clayton, NY. Similar to last year’s festivities, the focus was to offer a “green” forum [...]
Somers Energy Expo Brings the Community Together
May 6, 2011By Herb Oringel, Chair, Somers Energy Advisory Panel On February 5, 2011, the Town of Somers, NY held an ambitious Energy Expo program at Somers High School. (View the agenda by downloading our flyer.) This event was aimed at informing and educating the people of Somers, both young and old, about the need to be [...]
Kent CT Takes the Pledge
May 6, 2011By Karren Garrity, Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force With support from the Community Catalyst Fund, the Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force launched the Kent Carbon Challenge in September 2010. This is a one year energy reduction challenge. We have had almost 200 people sign up! Of these 200, 82 have signed up for [...]
The NH RGGI Race: Reform or Repeal?
April 28, 2011Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs I decided to live tweet the proceedings of last week’s NH Senate Hearing on HB 519 – the repeal of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Granite State. My reactions: outside the hearing, as evidenced from the Twitterverse, there is a [...]
Verizon earns nod for powering up green vehicles!
April 1, 2011Bob Sheppard Vice President of CA-CP’s Corporate Program If you think it hurts when you fill with $ 4 gallon gas at the pump imagine what it’s like for one of the nation’s largest vehicle fleets. President Obama met today in Maryland with executives from FedEx, UPS, AT&T, PepsiCo and Verizon who deal with that reality daily. These [...]
Common Sense Energy Savings
March 29, 2011Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs I’m looking forward to our third annual Local Energy Solutions conference for New Hampshire towns and schools – this Saturday — April 2 from 8 am-4pm . A town administrator from the North Coountry shared with me that his oil heat bill [...]
100 Pro-RGGI Businesses
March 28, 2011Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs The list of NH businesses supporting RGGI in New Hampshire is growing and this morning stands at 92. Not bad for hardly trying. Its common sense - ask a business owner if s/he’d like to pay for RGGI, only to see the [...]
