From Bridge Michigan: The Senate Wednesday approved bills to shift permitting authority over wind, solar developments to the state The bills are expected to gain Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature The effort comes in response to local pushback against wind and … Continue reading →
“A version of this article appeared in Salon“ The most significant images from Hurricane Ida’s devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast are the ones we are not seeing: no refugees huddled in the Superdome, no shots of block after block … Continue reading →
By Roy Morrison The fact that it was warmer in parts of the U.S. and Europe in February 2018 than at the North Pole should get more than our passing attention. It is time to pursue a global agenda for … Continue reading →
By Nancy Rae Mallery If you have, or plan to have, a solar photovoltaic system, it is important that you address the question of what will happen when the grid fails. Without planning specifically for grid failure, most net-metered systems … Continue reading →
By Green Energy Times Staff Over the years, Greenfield has been a leading community in energy, efficiency, and sustainability. Five from recent history might be taken as representative. The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), which had originally been based at … Continue reading →
By George Harvey Greenfield Community College (GCC) has a set of sustainability programs. A Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency option prepares students to work in energy and efficiency industries, and leads to an Associate of Arts degree (AA) or to a certificate. … Continue reading →
By George Harvey The home of Hannah Smeltz and Spartan Giordano of Greenfield won the North East Sustainable Energy Association’s (NESEA) 2015 Zero Net Energy Building Award. One thing interesting about the project is that it was the first house … Continue reading →
By George Harvey Co-op Power is a grassroots member-owned co-operative focused on sustainable energy. By combining purchasing power of its members, it provides efficiencies of scale to make renewable power and products available inexpensively. It has a commitment to having … Continue reading →
By George Harvey At long last, Co-op Power has raised the money needed to open the Northeast Biodiesel plant in Greenfield, Massachusetts. They started working on the idea over ten years ago, and have worked hard through many changes of … Continue reading →
Community Aggregation By George Harvey Massachusetts started a ball rolling when it passed the nation’s first Community Choice Aggregation Bill in 1997. This gave market groups and communities the ability to combine purchasing to get better rates for their residents. … Continue reading →