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SolWest Fair is July 25th, 26th & 27th, 2008
at the Grant County Fairgrounds, John Day, OR
The Eastern Oregon Renewable Energies Non-profit presents Solwest Fair the last full weekend of each July. SolWest is an occasion for learning, networking, and supporting all types of renewable energy. This three-day event offers engaging activities for all ages and knowledge levels. Participants from around the western region and beyond come to join the SolWest community and learn about energy efficiency, solar and wind energy, alternatively fueled vehicles, and more.
SolWest Fair Renewable Energy Links Great informationon regional energy fairs, guides and publications.
The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.
Clean Energy Economy
A clean energy economy means thousands of new companies, more new jobs and billions in revenue generated by solutions to the climate crisis. This is the kind of economy we want to leave for the next generation.
Personal Choices
We are already a million strong and are making our voices heard. When you stand up for solutions to global warming, you are joining a movement that will create a safer, cleaner climate for the next generation.
Adoption of Renewables
We can help break our addiction to fossil fuels like coal and oil by switching to renewable energy. In fact, with upgrades to our electricity grid, the United States could meet all of its power needs with renewable energy and support a significant portion of our transportation needs too.
Enhanced Energy Efficiency
One of the cheapest, most effective and safest ways to reduce global warming pollution is to increase our energy efficiency. By using energy efficiency technologies and today’s know-how, we could cut our global warming pollution by a third.
Innovative Leadership
The technological and policy solutions for the climate crisis already exist. What’s missing is something much more important but less tangible: innovative leadership.
What is The Natural Step framework?
The Natural Step (TNS) is a framework grounded in natural science that serves as a guide for businesses, communities, educators, government entities, and individuals on the path toward sustainable development.
The Natural Step framework encourages dialogue, consensus building, and systems-thinking (key processes of organizational learning) and creates the conditions for profound change to occur. It does not prescribe or condemn other approaches but rather introduces and expands on new possibilities.
From a business perspective, The Natural Step framework enables corporations to intelligently, and profitably, integrate environmental considerations into strategic decisions and daily
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is an eloquent appeal for community and regional action to initiate an array of solutions to energy needs until now controlled by large, distant utilities and consortiums. It is time to take back control of the energy and environmental challenges ahead; this book will help people do just that. It is a handbook for anyone ready to take the first steps towards a more sustainable future.
Boomtown USA; The7 ½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, there is BIG news from Boomtown! Jack and Agracel, Inc., Schultz’s industrial development firm which he founded in 1986, have established a new company, Boomtown Institute. The Institute’s mission is "To provoke innovative thinking, encourage leadership and foster investment in communities across the U.S.A."
Jack Schultz’s work as the CEO of Agracel, Inc., a firm that specializes in industrial development in small towns, led him to ponder the roots of rural prosperity. The result of more than three years of research was his popular book, Boomtown USA: The 7 ½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns. In it, Schultz attempts to answer a perennial question: What separates the thriving towns from the struggling ones?
The goal of GenGreen is to "mainstream green" for all by providing easy access to the resources that make sustainable living easier for everyone on a local level. This is accomplished in a variety of ways from our extensive online network and public events that encourage connection, growth and education through communication, to our online marketplace where people can find the eco-friendly products and services they need to support their sustainable lifestyles.
GenGreen is a multi-faceted platform for communication, education and connection. From green news headlines pertinent to your area, to job listings and tips to live a sustainable life, GenGreen is a comprehensive online resource for the tools you need to live a locally sustainable life. Want to find a recycling center near you? Where are your local farmers' markets? Looking for an alternative means to get to and from work each day? You can find the answers to these questions, and much more.
Solar Energy International is a USA non-profit organization
Renewable Energy Education Program (REEP)
SEI is continuing a 16-year history of education in renewable energy technologies. Many workshops are ISP certified, and participants can earn NABCEP education credits. Workshops are offered in a hands-on / how-to style, primarily at our Colorado training facility. Classroom and laboratory work is complemented by case studies, field tours and professional installations with real equipment in real settings. Instruction is provided by industry experts in the following renewable energy technologies:
Photovoltaic Design & Installation
Advanced Photovoltaics
Solar Water Pumping
Micro-Hydro Electric Systems
Wind Power
Solar Cooking & Food Drying
Renewable Energy for the Developing World
Solar Home Design
Natural House Building
Strawbale Construction
Adobe & Rammed Earth Construction
Energy and Resource Efficient Buildings
Alternative Fuels
Alternative Energy Pioneers
July 3, 2007 | by Bicycle City, Contributing Writer
Inventions that harness nature to generate some form of energy have been created for thousands of years. This quest merely intensified during the late 1800s when enlightened scientists started worrying about the possibility of the coal pits being depleted. In recent years, the effects of global warming and the damage caused to the earth’s entire ecosystem have motivated scientists, engineers and other inventors to identify or develop sustainable alternative energy sources.
About RenewableEnergyWorld.com RenewableEnergyWorld.com was started in 1998 by a group of Renewable Energy professionals who wanted their work to relate to their passion for renewable energy. With this passion and the desire to create a long term sustainable business, we have created perhaps the single most recognized and trusted source for Renewable Energy News and Information on the Internet.
At RenewableEnergyWorld.com we do our best to provide you with access to Renewable Energy-focused services, including...
Daily Renewable Energy News
Renewable Energy Products
Renewable Energy Technology Overview
Comprehensive Renewable Energy Events Calendar
Extensive Renewable Energy Job Opportunities
Comprehensive Internet Brand Building For Your Renewable Energy Business
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/home
EarthToys.com Established in 2002, is an online eMagazine and web library for the alternative energy industry. We provide an open and unbiased platform where new ideas, systems and solutions can be expressed, shared and cataloged for use by our readers.
Over 100,000 visitors each month READ our content because:
our e-Magazine contains informative articles from industry experts and influential individuals interested in alternative energy solutions from around the world.
our free News Service is updated hourly and is focused on the Alternative Energy Industry.
our Libraries are the perfect place to do research. Over 200 articles, thousands of news stories, hundreds of categorized web links and company profiles.
our Event Calendar covers conferences and trade shows that affect the future of energy.
http://www.earthtoys.com/emagazine.php
The History of NCATSince 1976 the National Center for Appropriate Technology has been serving economically disadvantaged people by providing information and access to appropriate technologies that can help improve their lives. During the organization's rich and varied history, NCAT projects have ranged from low-tech to high-tech, addressing complex issues of housing, economics, and environmental quality. Weatherizing houses, training farmers, monitoring energy use, demonstrating renewable energy technology, testing new products and providing information on building construction are just a few of the many ways that NCAT has contributed to fostering healthy quality of life for everyone.
http://www.ncat.org/index.php
The National Green Pages™ is a directory listing nearly 3,000 businesses that have made firm commitments to sustainable, socially just principles, including the support of sweatshop-free labor, organic farms, fair trade, and cruelty-free products.
For every category of conventional consumer goods and services, there are green businesses that can meet your needs. The National Green Pages™ lists baby care products, organic, fair trade, flavored teas, and fuel-efficient cars for rent among the thousands of products. With each purchase you make through the National Green Pages™, you know you’re supporting truly green businesses.
GreenStrides.com is a place to discover environmentally-friendly products and practices for the home and office. Whatever your lifestyle, there are many ways to make your home life or time at the office more green. Whether you’re building a new home, making repairs/renovations, or frustrated by the status quo at work, we’re here with news and information to help you do it in a more sustainable way.
EcoBusinessLinks - Green Directory
Not just green business here! We feature any and all green quality links...
+300 categories +9,000 green links +1.5 million visitors/year
The First Green Directory to neutralize all its carbon emissions
Looking for organic food, cheap clean energy, a sustainable house, organic cotton,
a vegetarian date, an organic farm, a sustainable community or eco products?
About BuildingGreen, LLC
We are an independent publishing company committed to bringing our members accurate, unbiased, and timely green design information.
BuildingGreen brings the best research, thinking, and writing to you through many publications, including Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.
Building Environmental Science & Technology
Helping Implement Environmental Building Practices Since 1996
Renewables, and Healthy Buildings
The overall environmental impact of building, remodeling and community development and choices made when we reuse or demolish existing structures is very important.
The current term green building -- (part of "sustainable design") -- describes the relationship that is the use of environmentally sound building strategies that result in more sustainable development, which studies indicate can help reverse negative environmental impacts of development.
Environmental buildings start with highly energy efficient design; are constructed and commissioned to ensure they are healthy indoors for their occupants; are more comfortable, durable and easier to afford due to lower operating and owning costs; and utilize construction materials wisely (briefing PDF) helping the environment.
Smart Energy
It’s clear that we live in an increasingly energy-hungry world. How do we meet this rising demand without inflicting permanent damage to the fragile environment that supports our life on earth? What energy resources are available, which ones should we invest in, and at what level?
At Smart Energy, we try to answer these questions through interviews with the world’s leading scientists, engineers and policy makers. We discuss new ideas and new technologies from wind, solar, tidal energy, and other renewables to fossil fuels to solutions for transport. Our aim is to present information in an unbiased way, focussing on data and research, not politics. We hope to help you sift through the sometimes conflicting and biased information found in traditional media.
The Rocky Mountain Research Center is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation. For over 20 years, the Rocky Mountain Research Center has focused its efforts on understanding, designing, and building for a more rational future. Our efforts cover the range from soft tech to high tech.
Passive Annual Heat Storage - An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again, Our Passive Annual Heat Storage is not just another alternative energy idea that grew out of the energy shortages of the seventies. It demonstrates the logical and balanced application of knowledge.
Natural heat is collected all summer, when there's more of it, and saved until winter when it's needed. Instead of pumping heat into some expensive high-tech manufactured device, the building materials of the PAHS home are arranged in a special configuration to merely change the balance of natural heat flow of a conventional design.
As a result, the living environment is cooled through natural heat flow, eliminating the need for powered air conditioning. This heat is then stored in the earth around the home without the need for special equipment. When winter arrives, again, natural heat flow brings back the warmth to keep the home at a nearly constant comfortable temperature all year-round.
About BuildingGreen, LLC
We are an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts of buildings.
We offer both print and electronic resources to help you design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance.
Clean Edge is a leading research and publishing firm helping companies, investors, and governments understand and profit from clean technologies. Our products and services include:
Market Research Reports including the annual Clean-Energy Trends report and other sponsored publications.
The NASDAQ® Clean Edge® U.S. Index – a benchmark index which tracks U.S.-listed clean-energy companies.
The Clean-Tech Investor Summit – the premier clean-tech conference and networking opportunity of the year.
http://www.cleanedge.com/
About Energy Priorities is a platform for information, ideas and commentary on smart energy -- a resource for businesses who want to be more informed energy users -- an asset to entrepreneurs and investors in the new energy sector.
Green Building Professionals Directory
Green Real Estate
Sustainable Sources Bookstore
Green Building Solutions
A Sourcebook for Green and Sustainable Building
Green Events Calendar
International Strawbale Registry
Articles
Online Discussions
Outstanding Sites and Groups
"Using the earth as a component of the energy system, or "earth-tempering," can be accomplished through three primary methods: direct, indirect, and isolated. In the direct system, the building envelope is in contact with the earth, and conduction through the building elements (primarily walls and floor) regulates the interior temperature. In the indirect system, the building interior is conditioned by air brought through the earth, such as in earth tubes. The isolated system uses earth temperatures to increase the efficiency of a heat pump by moderating temperatures at the condensing coil. A geothermal heat pump is an example of an isolated system."
About 2People
The mission of 2People is sustainability in one generation. To achieve this, we must make the connections between many issues, from pollution and poverty to women's rights and democracy. However, we have come to believe that the disruption of our climate threatens to make all other sustainability goals unachievable. Therefore, our immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis. We are a non-profit organization, started by Phil Mitchell. You can contact us at info at 2people dot org.
Renewable Energy World Magazine
Welcome to the new website for Renewable Energy World Magazine. As you can see, we have joined forces with the former RenewableEnergyAccess.com website, now RenewableEnergyWorld.com. The Renewable Energy World brand has been rolled out across all PennWell's renewable energy properties - magazine, online and events in North America and Europe. So now at RenewableEnergyWorld.com you will find not only current and archived magazine features (searchable by issue and topic) and latest news from around the world, but also regular podcasts, video and more.
The Home Power Magazine is the Hands-on Journal of Home-Made Power. If you are interested in: making your own electricity from renewable energy, alternative vehicles, or finding out the latest in related technologies and life-styles, then this publication can keep you up to date.
http://www.homepower.com/home/
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Learn about NREL's research and development of renewable fuels and electricity that advance national energy goals to change the way we power our homes, businesses, and cars.
Alternative Energy Resources Network Eighty plus web sites.... Energy Portal....
1000+ news sources updated daily
Our mission is to help facilitate the mass marketing and commercialization of alternative energy products-services by
- Daily updated breaking news and articles on alternate and renewable energies, environment, science and sustainable development.
- Educating the general public about the availability, usage and need for these technologies.
- Providing forums and a marketplace for the exchange of ideas, products-services and resource information.
U.S. Department of Energy Renewable and alternative energy technologies are important to increasing America's energy security and addressing the long-term challenge of global climate change
About the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse
Since 1990 the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse has been the most comprehensive, technical resource that Pacific Northwest business, industry, government and utilities use to implement energy technologies and practices. EnergyIdeas is operated and managed by the Washington State University Extension Energy Program in Olympia, Washington. Funding is provided by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance).
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Natural Home
Welcome to Natural Home, a magazine that is an empowering tool for anyone interested in creating a soulful, nurturing dwelling! Natural Home not only shows you how to add health and harmony to your home-but helps you do it!
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Chelsea Green Publishing is regarded as the preeminent publisher of books on sustainable living. With well over 400 titles in print, its best-selling titles include: Books on the politics of sustainability including the National Bestseller Don't Think of an Elephant. George Lakoff's definitive handbook for progressives to understand and communicate effectively about key political issues started the national discussion on framing the political debate. Over 200,000 copies printed in 6 months;
The Man Who Planted Trees, an ecological fable that has sold over 250,000 copies in 18 years, setting a standard for quality of writing, beauty of design and illustration, creative publishing and inspirational message;
The Straw Bale House, a revolutionary building book that has sold over 100,000 copies, launching the company's natural building and renewable energy list and helping establish our recognized leadership in this field;
Eliot Coleman's The Four Season Harvest and The New Organic Grower, landmark books in sustainable agriculture and organic food;
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solar7.83... an environmental union
between the sun that heats our earth and the
heartbeat of our planet.
The earth's electromagnetic field, The Schumann waves, pulse at 7.83hz
akin to our own natural heartbeat and
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is the very substance that keeps us alive.
Southwest Desert Sustainability Project was started in 2000. It is a New Mexico nonprofit 501 c 3 educational organization engaged in creating tangible tools (skills training and work study programs) for certified building careers in poured adobe and composite adobe (advanced earthen construction). Our potential home designs include affordable passive solar cooling, biosewage and renewable energy integration. Our objective is affordability, sustainability and self sufficiency. Luna County New Mexico, our residing area, reflects third world economics. We are in the desert with depleting water resources, (9" annual rainfall) increasing border pollution, advanced unemployment, poverty, educational dropout and illiteracy. We address local and world energy and environmental issues and the need for sustainable industries. We are attaining state certification on poured adobe, a process whereby adobe earthen construction can be built in less than two weeks, durably and with longevity, dramatically increasing drying time and equally dramatically decreasing building costs.
Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities.
"It's All Alive, It's All Intelligent, It's All Connected."
Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. It's all alive.
Bicycle City is a planned, urban design community where people live, work and play. Its eco-friendly, car-free design is healthy, sustainable and animal-friendly. Why are we working on what could be the largest eco-friendly community project? For people, animals and our earth.
In the early 1990s, Bicycle City was conceived, models were built and drawings were created. Now with funding and a great team, the first Bicycle City is coming soon. Some dreams happen! We plan to have the first Bicycle City somewhere in the USA with a temperate climate and clean water, air and land. Is your state or county a good place for a Bicycle City?