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Greenfield 10% Challenge Gains Momentum |
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Written by GGEC Committee
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
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Aubuchon Hardware Helps Out - Dec. Special GREENFIELD, MA – Greening Greenfield’s 10% Challenge is gaining momentum, and Aubuchon Hardware is helping out during the month of December.
Over 400 households have taken the Greenfield 10% Challenge and pledged to reduce their energy use by 10% by the end of 2010. This marks the halfway point to the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee’s goal of engaging 800 households in the campaign. |
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Four trends that are reshaping America |
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Written by Lester Brown *
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
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* (This article was contributed by the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee)
For over 30 years, Lester Brown has been tracking emerging trends in energy and environment – and working out what they might mean for the future. Now he tells Martin Wright why coal is dying, wind is king – and America is falling out of love with the automobile.
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Gov pushes biomass But forests could die in support of his plan |
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Written by Max Schultz
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
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Friday, August 21, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed Up until the Industrial Revolution, humans burned wood and dung for their energy. In the poorest parts of the Third World, people still do to heat homes and cook food. But it is a high mark of our own society’s development today that we get our energy from more advanced sources, like coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and even wind and solar. This measure of progress helps explain how we have created the most affluent economy in world history. It also partly explains how the United States has been adding, not losing, forestland over the last century. So if burning wood is a 19th century anachronism, why is Gov. Deval Patrick eager to make it a part of the state’s 21st century energy mix? That is the big question that must be raised in the wake of reports his administration is pushing the development of four industrial wood-burning power plants in western Massachusetts.
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Is it better to burn trees than coal to produce power? |
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Written by Cape Cod Media Group
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
June 09, 2009 6:00 AM
In our headlong rush to develop alternative sources of energy, the push to turn trees into electricity could be a costly stumble. The state and the nation are pouring taxpayer money into biomass incineration/generation plants — it's said that entrepreneurs can quickly recover the cost of construction thanks to various sources of public funding. Right now, three substantial biomass power plants are in the permitting process in western Massachusetts: a 50-megawatt $165 million plant at Russell, west of Springfield; a 38-megawatt$150 million plant in Springfield;and a 47-megawatt $250 million plant in Greenfield, north of Springfield. Another facility is proposed for Pittsfield and a small Fitchburg plant may be enlarged. (For context,average Cape Cod use is about 230 megawatts; the proposed Cape Wind project would produce an average of 170 megawatts.). |
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Greenfield Business Assoc. & Sandri Companies Join Greenfield 10% Challenge |
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Written by GGEC Committee
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
GREENFIELD, MA – The Greenfield Business Association (GBA) and The Sandri Companies have joined the Greenfield 10% Challenge to help the Town meet the goal of reducing its energy use by 10% by the end of 2010. The 10% Challenge was launched last April by the Greening Greenfield campaign.
“Reducing energy use is good for business and for the environment” said Becky George, coordinator of the GBA “We are proud to take the challenge. We are urging our members to join the 10% Challenge and reduce their energy use, and promote the Challenge to their employees and customers.” |
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