By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 A bill in the N.C. House that would repeal the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS) failed today in the House Committee on Public Utilities and Energy by a vote of 18-13. According…
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Renewable Energy Standard Targeted by N.C. Legislature
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Despite job creation directly linked to North Carolina’s burgeoning clean energy industry, the state’s modest renewable energy standard continues to be targeted by lawmakers. The “Affordable and Reliable Energy Act,” which narrowly passed…
The Inside Scoop on Residential Efficiency Policies
By Matt Grimley Jim and Edrianna Stilwells’ home in Fairview, N.C., is immersed in nature. It sits at 3,500 feet and offers nearly 360 degrees of mountainous views. It was designed to be energy efficient, and with lessening their carbon…
TAGS: Clean Energy Financing Energy Efficiency Energy Efficient Tax Credit Energy Saving Energy-Efficient Mortgage Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Solar Energy Solar Investment Tax Credit Weatherization Assistance Program
Two School Districts Go Green to Save Green
By Toby MacDermott North Adams Elementary is one of the greenest schools in southeast Ohio. With solar panels on the roof, wild turkeys roaming the grounds, and a design based on LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standards,…
TAGS: Adams County/Ohio Valley school district energy conservation Energy Efficiency geothermal energy green building Scott County Schools Solar Energy
Raleigh Legislature Hosts Citizens’ Lobby Day for Renewable Energy
There’s just something fitting about North Carolina renewable energy advocates getting up ahead of the sun – and this is exactly what they did on Tuesday June 12th as they rolled out of bed for the 7:00 AM convening of…
TAGS: Citizens Lobby Day clean energy Economy Electric Utilities hydroelectricity jobs North Carolina Renewable Energy Solar Energy wind energy
A Golden Wing and a Prayer: Restoring Warbler Habitat
By Brian Sewell Appalachia’s favorite bird, the golden-winged warbler, has been selected as one of seven focus species by a new partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that aims to reverse population…
By The Numbers
78%: Voters nationwide who support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s work to hold polluters accountable. 170: Votes against environmental protection in the House of Representatives since the beginning of 2011 1,048.3 million: Number of short tons of coal the U.S.…
TAGS: Appalachian politics Appalachian State University biohybrid solar energy coal bed methane coal production EPA Mining Jobs natural gas wastewater standards recycling greywater shale gas Solar Energy UNC Asheville US Forest Service Vanderbilt University Western North Carolina forest report card
The Solar Decathlon
By Jeff Deal Those weren’t spaceships on Washington D.C.’s National Mall in September — they were entries for this year’s U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Every two years, the competition challenges teams of college students to design, build and…
TAGS: Appalachian State University Ken Peacock Living Light modular homes Solar Decathlon Solar Energy Solar Homestead Project U.S. Department of Energy University of Tennessee Washington DC
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Please Don’t Trash the Outdoors Dear Editor, For my school service project, I picked up trash around the forest. I picked up trash at campsites and on the forest roads. I found a lot of things like beer cans, milk…
Congregations Put Faith in Solar Power
By Brian Sewell On a sunny day in April at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Asheville, N.C., the Reverend Joe Hoffman welcomed his congregation with an unusual liturgy. “Today we celebrate a particular act of faith with…
TAGS: Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy finance models for renewable energy North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light Solar Energy spirituality Sundance Power Systems sustainability
