Dialog of the Helena, Montana, Energy Efficiency & Municipal Operations Working Group. The purpose is to share information and maintain momentum of the group outside of regularly scheduled meeting as well as to gather feedback from other concerned individuals.
This link will take you to a page that has links to groups working around the country on the same types of things. Will be helpful benchmarking. I'll see about getting our work posted here.
Peak Moment 101: Santa Barbara is serious about lowering carbon emissions. Guided by a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions study, they're adding solar panels to city buildings, requiring lower energy usage for new buildings, switching to biodiesel and hybrid vehicles, and giving free bus passes to downtown workers. City councilmember Das Williams urges citizens to push officials to make substantive (i.e. funded) changes to mitigate the effects of peak oil and climate change. [www.santabarbaraca.gov]
Sustainable Bellingham has built a solid infrastructure to be as effective in their community as possible. Team members Sandy Hoelterhoff, Lynnette Allen and David Kowalsky discuss their decision-making tool QET (a Quick Effective Tool), as well as a natural-systems model to define roles for producing events. Called ACORN, it includes roles based on directions of the compass (e.g., physical logistics tasks are in the south, oversight in the north). With a mission of education and communication, they network people, projects and groups with similar interests. Among Sustainable Bellingham 's activities are film showings and a Sustainable Transportation Fair. [www.sustainablebellingham.org]
Peak Moment 18: Students in New College of California's Powerdown Project are preparing templates usable by cities to assess how their core services will be affected by rising fossil-fuel prices and shortages. [www.powerdownproject.org]
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