By Josh Trought In the Northeast, with our short growing season, the practice of developing a resilient food system depends on preserving the harvest through the winter months. Preservation provides a mechanism to extend food availability beyond fresh picked. A … Continue reading →
By GET staff Just about anyone interested in buying, building, or retrofitting a building in New Hampshire, whether as a customer or as a professional, might benefit from knowing about the New Hampshire Residential Energy Performance Association (REPA). REPA’s membership … Continue reading →
By George Harvey Cornell Tech, part of Cornell University, is a new applied-sciences campus in New York City, on Roosevelt Island. The first classes started in 2013 at temporary quarters in a building Google owns on EighthAvenue. Construction began on … Continue reading →
By Stephen Dotson On August 7, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) organized a BuildingEnergy Pro Tour of a 2,500-square-foot home that will be the first certified passive house in Wayland, MA. BuildingEnergy Pro Tours are half-day tours of high-performance … Continue reading →
The Need for Mechanical Ventilation in Energy Efficient Homes By Michael Goetinck If you’ve ever been in a room where the air felt “too close” or you’ve ever experienced the need to step outside for a breath of fresh air … Continue reading →
By Philip Warburg, 226 pages, hardbound, Beacon Press, $27.95 Book review by N. R. Mallery After Philip Warburg’s Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability was published in 2012, he went on to take another … Continue reading →
From WorldWatch Institute, Island Press, 140 pages, $19.99 Review by Tammy Reiss This year’s publication by the WorldWatch Institute, State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability is well worth reading. Fourteen authors of the institute compiled the … Continue reading →
By Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss If temperatures around the globe continue to rise in the face of human-induced climate change as climatologists expect, some of the world’s most populous areas could become uninhabitable. Rising sea levels will flood out … Continue reading →
From The Vermont Council on Rural Development Area businesses and nonprofits are increasingly involved with climate change, both the challenges and the opportunities. Their creative solutions are becoming a growing part of our state’s economy. Those who have opinions are … Continue reading →
By George Harvey Google recently announced that it will build a new data center at the Widows Creek Power Plant in Jackson County, Alabama. Widows Creek is a coal-burning plant belonging to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It recently shut … Continue reading →