Renewable Energy
Blog Action Day: Sustainable Energy Opportunities in Rural Communities
October 16, 2009 - 14:27 — Jordan_HypesA study by UK Met Office scientists released last month warns of “catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes”. This finding challenged “the assumption that severe warming will only be a threat to future generations” and suggests that without strong action on emissions the “catastrophic rise in temperature could happen by 2060”. While the findings of the study are frightening, there are opportunities for rural regions like Hastings County to be leaders in Canada’s efforts to address climate change and shift towards a sustainable energy system.
There Has Never Been a Better Time Not to Buy a Reactor
The Pembina Institute June 2009
Groups ask McGuinty to delay buying new reactor and instead replace aging reactors with green power.
Conditions have changed and the McGuinty government should support its own Green Energy Act by deciding against buying new nuclear reactors this summer, say thirteen prominent environmental organizations in an open letter to the Premier.
The groups say there has never been a better time not to buy a nuclear reactor, and they urge the Premier to forgo spending billions on new nuclear and instead put his Green Energy Act to work by replacing the aging Pickering B nuclear station with green energy.
McLeod Dam will provide green energy from May 8 onwards
April 22, 2009 - 13:01 — Louise LivingstoneQuinte Conservation will host a grand opening event for their McLeod Dam Green Energy Project on May 8. The existing dam was modified so that as well as providing ice and flood control it will now generate hydro-electricity.
Manure becomes energy source on farm
By Brian St. Denis
For Donnandale Farms, cow manure is soon to be much more than waste. By December the Donnandale farm north of Belleville will be running self-sufficiently on biogas created by its 600 head of cattle. Mark Donnan is one of the first to apply to the Ontario Biogas Financial Assistance Program, which funds up to $400,000 for construction and implementation costs. The project was in development now for a year-and-a-half.
Quinte Sustainable Living Symposium 2009
January 13, 2009 - 12:29 — Louise LivingstoneLocation
New this year - A Green Homes Bus Tour on Sunday, March 29 organized by the County Sustainability Group
Tamworth Energy Fair
November 14, 2008 - 18:08 — Louise LivingstoneLocation
Among other activities there will be a two hour workshop by local renewable energy expert, Cam Mather who will explain the “eco-nomic”approach to reducing your energy costs and integrating
Off grid living means solar-powered blogging, even with a lack of sunshine.
by Deane Brebner and Don Bissonnette, Sutton, Quebec on 06.27.08, Design and Architecture
Prepping for off-grid, locavore living Prior to the month of June, we had some preparations to make before we moved our home off the grid and became locavores. A hose was attached to the pond and brought downhill to the house. A small “room heater” wood stove with a precarious home-made chimney was erected near the house. A solar panel and back-up battery was ordered and on the way. The fridge was emptied; we ate the contents or gave them to friends.
We had decided that in preparing for the food it did not make any sense to drive miles out of our way to purchase staples prior to June but, if we were in the locality for another reason, we would travel a bit. In middle Vermont we went to a restaurant called The Farmer’s Diner recommended by Barbara Kingsolver in her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. This restaurant is an old fashioned diner that uses only local produce and meats. On the cover of the menu was a description of the Chapelles, who provided the potatoes to the retsuarant, so we visited them and purchased 50 pounds of potatoes. We were given a tour by the gracious Bob Chapelle. Part of the fun of this project is meeting all the people who are so invested in providing better food choices.
Fairy-tale town of Marburg up in arms over decree on solar panels
By Tony Paterson in Berlin Friday, 27 June 2008
Making Beeswax Candles
June 23, 2008 - 20:49 — Louise LivingstoneJanet Nunn demonstrates how to make candles from beeswax, at The Honey House, River Valley Apiary, Stirling, Ontario. Bees make beeswax so it provides a renewable form of energy.
Renewable energy: changing course for the future
June 15, 2008 - 14:42 — LAV in America
Robert F. Kennedy Jnr.Skyrocketing gas prices, mountaintop coal removal, global warming, it can all be a bit overwhelming. If you are a glass half empty kind of person, the future can seem a bit daunting. Fortunately, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a glass half full kind of guy.
A senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, founder of Riverkeeper, an organization to clean up the Huson River, and president of Waterkeeper Alliance, Kennedy believes with a little ingenuity things can turn around. “We have some of the best energy resources in the world,” Kennedy told a late night talk show recently. “The midwest is the Saudi Arabia of wind. We have enough harvestable wind energy in North Dakota to power all of the electricity needs for the United States of America, even if everybody owns an electric car.”
He says there is enough solar power in 19 per cent of Arizona to power the energy needs of the whole country.
