By Nancy Fredrickson, Sandwich Energy Committee Recycling is back at Sandwich Central School thanks to the volunteer efforts of the town’s energy committee and a Community Catalyst Fund grant that provided funding for construction of an outdoor storage shed. Due to severe space shortages our K‐6 school’s recycling program had been put on hold indefinitely [...]
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Recycling is Back at Sandwich, NH, Central School!
December 6, 2011Common 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 [...]
Make it your business to support RGGI
March 11, 2011Roger Stephenson Vice President for Programs With almost 200 jobs produced already in New Hampshire as well as a number of NH towns and schools saving energy dollars, RGGI is not fooling around – it means business. My colleague Bob Sheppard sent a note to business partners to sign on to [...]
Repealing RGGI is not an Option
March 2, 2011Roger Stephenson VP for Programs, CA-CP Resisting a RGGI Repeal The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has come under fire in at least three of the participating states, and at times for good reason. For example, I believe revenue from RGGI should not be diverted into a state’s general fund. However, ideology [...]
What do witch hunts look like in a changing climate?
July 7, 2010By Bill Burtis Manager of Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet I came across the article “The Witch Hunt of the Little Ice Age” (by Dr. Promode Kant at the Institute for a green Economy in New Delhi) during a search for science on that period of the planet’s history made famous by climate [...]
Go Slow to Go Fast: Citizen-based Energy Action
April 9, 2009Roger Stephenson, executive vice president for programs, Clean Air – Cool Planet Go slow to go fast. (Thanks to Chris Brown of the National Park Service) People want to be served not sold, involved, not told. (Thanks to the late Pat Jackson of Jackson, Jackson and Wagner). I’ve carried a few of these chestnuts around [...]
