Tag: <span>Renewable Energy</span>

One Small Step

By: Anne Lapera These past four months working with VAEIC have been extremely rewarding and successful. We as an organization were successful in sharing our research and recommendations with Governor McAuliffe (governor of Virginia). Our goals included developing an Energy Plan that promoted open markets for clean advanced energy technologies, …

Beer and policy? Say what?

When I told my classmates and friends that I was going to do my environmental policy internship at a brewery, I received one of two reactions: incredulity or laughter. It was evident that, to my peers, the connection between environmental policy and brewing beer seemed tenuous at best. I am …

A small group of thoughtful committed citizens changing the world

  By: Anne Lapera VAEIC Policy Internship With the implementation of the new 111d regulations and President Obama’a call for a 30% reduction in emissions many states are at a crossroad. Section 111d of the Clean Air Act “requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or …

Natural Gas: Not So Fracking Clean

Natural Gas: Not So Fracking Clean By  Jessica Schug MS ’15, Judson Peck MS ’15, Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva MS ’15 Natural gas is promoted as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuel, providing energy that will reduce both global warming and the United State’s dependence on foreign oil. After being approached by …

Clean Energy Made Simple and Affordable in Massachusetts

Does having 100% of your electricity come from clean and local energy sources sound too good to be true? It’s not. That is exactly what Mass Energy Consumers Alliance has been offering to rate payers for over a decade. Started as a community heating oil service in 1982, Mass Energy, …

Marketing clean technology like we mean it

Reposted from greenbiz.com Written by Lisa Jaccoma, Bard CEP alumna ’10 From a marketing and communications standpoint, 2011 should have been a wake-up call for the cleantech industry in the U.S. We are getting our collective butts kicked in the national conversation. Yes, individual companies did well. Enough good to …

Solar Cooker

From the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted March 1st, 2011 Finished rice ready to eat Last January, I went to a conference in Washington, DC.  One of the sessions I attended was on building and using a solar cooker.  We even built one, but since it was the middle …