Although there are not as many events on the calendar for August, there are two in Austin, Texas and a couple in Australia mentioned below. In addition, Shelburne Farms in Vermont is hosting the Education for Sustainability Institute in the first week of the month. Shelburne Farms is “Shelburne Farms is a membership-supported, nonprofit environmental [...]
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August Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
August 2nd, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Clean Technology, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability 
Tags: Bio-fuels, Calendar, Clean Energy, Wind Power 
View CommentsNew Millennium Wind Energy Hopes to Revolutionize Rooftop Turbines
July 24th, 2010 Eric Wilson Colorado based New Millennium Wind Energy has designed a 30 foot spherical wind turbine dubbed the Turbinator with hopes that it will provide electricity directly to big box retailers and office buildings. Andrew Thacker, founder and principle engineer, was seen on Denver’s 9 News this past Friday. Thacker claims that the Turbinator will produce 60 [...]
Is Green Tape the New Red Tape?
July 19th, 2010 Eric Wilson Last month a guest author wrote about his experiences installing a rain barrel in his home. The moral of his story was “Be prepared to face an uphill battle.” In the Denver Post recently there was an article with a similar theme, namely that the regulations being put in place regarding clean energy have hampered [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Colorado, Geothermal, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power View CommentsWhy Renewable Materials Do Not Equal Sustainable Materials
July 14th, 2010 Eric Wilson Renewable resources, such as plant material (collectively referred to as biomass) and wind power, play a major factor in moving toward a sustainable society. However, the terms renewable and sustainable are not synonymous. It seems as though they are used interchangeably in everyday conversations. The most egregious example of this seems to arise when talking [...]
Five Friday Funnies
May 28th, 2010 Eric Wilson Coming to you by way of the May 13th issue of the satirical publication The Onion: “Alternative” Alternative Energy Projects The U.S. Department of Interior just approved Cape Wind, the nation’s first offshore wind farm, which will be built five miles from Cape Cod. Here are some of the [other] projects awaiting approval: Gulf of [...]
