By Jayson Uppal, Director of Engineering, Emergent Energy Group
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With the Green Communities Act of 2009, community wind power is becoming increasingly feasible for Massachusetts municipalities, universities, farms and businesses. New net metering laws allow users to tie their wind turbine into their electric meter, and run the meter backwards as they produce electricity. Rather than [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Minimizing the Impacts of Community Wind Power Projects
Spring Cleaning
Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride. Say that three times fast, or maybe just try to say it once.
What is it, you ask? Well, it happens to be a pesticide and just one of the many toxic ingredients found in common household cleaners. In fact, there are hundreds of everyday household products that emit what are [...]
Passive House Technology
The built environment is one of the biggest culprits when it comes to energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, buildings account for over 40% of carbon emissions emitted in the United States, making energy efficient retrofits an attractive approach to fighting climate change. Indeed, there are a number of things that homeowners can [...]
GreenUp Massachusetts!
By Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
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Often the challenges of creating a sustainable society seem overwhelming and it’s tough to know what one person can do to really make a difference. The differences we make will in large part be the result of many seemingly small (when viewed in isolation) actions. Of course these add up [...]
Bike Share in Boston
Well, it seems the groundhog was right.
Still, as hard as it is to imagine warm temperatures after this most recent dumping of snow, the sunny days of spring are not too far away. And this means that people will soon be switching their skis, skates and snowshoes for rackets, golf clubs and bikes. [...]
