Showing posts with label conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservation. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
'WaterSense' Spec's released today by the EPA!
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/778EA162223967EC85257688004D543D
Contact: Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov 202-564-7873, 202-564-4355
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/spaces/new_homes.html#area
The first link is the Announcement By Date from the EPA. The second link is the specification and information page regarding specifications (spec's in the building/regulatory world) for a WaterSense home.
The EPA worked with Stakeholders (builders, construction, business, etc) to design the 'WaterSense' home spec's.
Here is a link to the 213 pages, listing the participating stakeholders This is what happens when wisdom concerning the environment and business [progress] come together!
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/Meet_Our_Partners.html
Homes that earn the "WaterSense" label will be using 10,000 gallons less. This will reflect financial savings that pay for the up front cost of purchase and installation. WaterSense is also engineered to work well with other energy efficient plans such as, LEED and ENERGY STAR.
The Specification and Information from the second link is a page filled with resources, work sheets, calculators, quizzes, activities and more links to information.
Keep in mind the $1,500.00 Tax Credits available until 12/31/10 for non-business structures. In 2009, Congress and the President extended the Energy Tax Credit to those who are willing to implement these energy and money saving features to their homes.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=214979,00.html
For many States to implement the WaterSense as well as other Energy reduction programs by the citizens means a loss in 'franchise' and other municipal taxes that benefit the states, cities and other municipalities.
Hopefully, this type of thinking will trickle down to more States in the form of credits and rebates for saving energy. It is important to reduce energy consumption, and by doing the right thing, it's citizen-taxpayers will have more money to spend on retail goods and services.
Contact: Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov 202-564-7873, 202-564-4355
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/spaces/new_homes.html#area
The first link is the Announcement By Date from the EPA. The second link is the specification and information page regarding specifications (spec's in the building/regulatory world) for a WaterSense home.
The EPA worked with Stakeholders (builders, construction, business, etc) to design the 'WaterSense' home spec's.
Here is a link to the 213 pages, listing the participating stakeholders This is what happens when wisdom concerning the environment and business [progress] come together!
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/Meet_Our_Partners.html
Homes that earn the "WaterSense" label will be using 10,000 gallons less. This will reflect financial savings that pay for the up front cost of purchase and installation. WaterSense is also engineered to work well with other energy efficient plans such as, LEED and ENERGY STAR.
The Specification and Information from the second link is a page filled with resources, work sheets, calculators, quizzes, activities and more links to information.
Keep in mind the $1,500.00 Tax Credits available until 12/31/10 for non-business structures. In 2009, Congress and the President extended the Energy Tax Credit to those who are willing to implement these energy and money saving features to their homes.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=214979,00.html
For many States to implement the WaterSense as well as other Energy reduction programs by the citizens means a loss in 'franchise' and other municipal taxes that benefit the states, cities and other municipalities.
Hopefully, this type of thinking will trickle down to more States in the form of credits and rebates for saving energy. It is important to reduce energy consumption, and by doing the right thing, it's citizen-taxpayers will have more money to spend on retail goods and services.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
EERE News: New York Seeks Proposals for Offshore Wind Power in the Great Lakes
EERE News: New York Seeks Proposals for Offshore Wind Power in the Great Lakes
Advocating alternative energy sources is healthy for all parties.
We are being driven to greater energy demands daily. I love that bumper sticker; "want less". Amen brother.
Wind turbine power is a great concept. I think it is a source given to use, that is clean in and of itself. If we are all building wooden structures with canvas blades on our 20 acres, it remains harmless. When we put up thousands with the ultimate goal of millions, we can forget to weigh the entire picture. Now, that we have this newer wisdom, let us consider before it is too late, that we are not destroying another set of species. We can take time, use what has been learned in world weather patterns and find places and settings that will not do more harm than good in the long run.
Let us consider every energy source from it's inception, growth, production and finally closure. What waste is produced? How much energy (all energy) is expended to produce energy? How many species are harmed or destroyed? Are there pollinators that are in danger? What about the effects on human health?
If we consider energy as a part of all life source, then hopefully, we will not have over-used our quota.
Energy expended toward the earth and her good health is not energy wasted. Every little bit people do for good, makes a difference.
Advocating alternative energy sources is healthy for all parties.
We are being driven to greater energy demands daily. I love that bumper sticker; "want less". Amen brother.
Wind turbine power is a great concept. I think it is a source given to use, that is clean in and of itself. If we are all building wooden structures with canvas blades on our 20 acres, it remains harmless. When we put up thousands with the ultimate goal of millions, we can forget to weigh the entire picture. Now, that we have this newer wisdom, let us consider before it is too late, that we are not destroying another set of species. We can take time, use what has been learned in world weather patterns and find places and settings that will not do more harm than good in the long run.
Let us consider every energy source from it's inception, growth, production and finally closure. What waste is produced? How much energy (all energy) is expended to produce energy? How many species are harmed or destroyed? Are there pollinators that are in danger? What about the effects on human health?
If we consider energy as a part of all life source, then hopefully, we will not have over-used our quota.
Energy expended toward the earth and her good health is not energy wasted. Every little bit people do for good, makes a difference.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Really?
http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/ftproot/pub/WebDatabases/InspectionsOnline/041079-Insp.pdf
Back in Arkansaw, a court jester had been found to make the Regents chuckle..."Everyone knows the peons do not decide what is right or what will be. Once we have made a decree, it shall not be challanged!" We know what is the Best to do by the BananaKins of Arkansaw.
Back in Arkansaw, a court jester had been found to make the Regents chuckle..."Everyone knows the peons do not decide what is right or what will be. Once we have made a decree, it shall not be challanged!" We know what is the Best to do by the BananaKins of Arkansaw.
Perhaps it is childish to refer to these situations as fairy tales;
considering in this case, Fiction must needs be easier on the
soul.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Winter Brings Spring Growth ~
Today, beneath the cold ground the Earth is growing ready to bring forth of her body new life for the care of all her children.
Each year, as sickness and ills bombard her life systems, she grows more feverish. She needs to have all of the Medicine Women and all of the Medicine Men come together in ceremony.
It has come to the time that the First People spoke would come. In the time when the Great Father seemed to turn his back on his People, it was not understood why He also turned his back on the Mother of us all.
When will the two-leggeds learn their lesson? When the Earth is moaning, crying out in fever, tossing and turning. She must, must remove what is harming her life systems.
Are two-leggeds essentially evil? Will the four-leggeds left to their own imagine such evil? Will they eat all of the food that is grown, and not consider the next Winter Moon? Will they melt all of the ice in order to race from place to place - making time to lose?
If she does not die, Mother Earth will have to heal. It must be soon. It must be drastic. Healing will come quickly, because Love & Care, Thanks are good Music to Earth, to Sky and to Water. The two-leggeds have their own survival at stake. The four-leggeds and winged ones are slowly disappearing for greed, for gold that never brings true success.
Compassion for all living; water, air & earth, Must be considered. We must come and Sing for our Mother. We must counsel to save what can be saved.
Each year, as sickness and ills bombard her life systems, she grows more feverish. She needs to have all of the Medicine Women and all of the Medicine Men come together in ceremony.
It has come to the time that the First People spoke would come. In the time when the Great Father seemed to turn his back on his People, it was not understood why He also turned his back on the Mother of us all.
When will the two-leggeds learn their lesson? When the Earth is moaning, crying out in fever, tossing and turning. She must, must remove what is harming her life systems.
Are two-leggeds essentially evil? Will the four-leggeds left to their own imagine such evil? Will they eat all of the food that is grown, and not consider the next Winter Moon? Will they melt all of the ice in order to race from place to place - making time to lose?
If she does not die, Mother Earth will have to heal. It must be soon. It must be drastic. Healing will come quickly, because Love & Care, Thanks are good Music to Earth, to Sky and to Water. The two-leggeds have their own survival at stake. The four-leggeds and winged ones are slowly disappearing for greed, for gold that never brings true success.
Compassion for all living; water, air & earth, Must be considered. We must come and Sing for our Mother. We must counsel to save what can be saved.
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