Carbon Offsets

Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative

Resources

Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint calculators:

Bonneville Environmental Foundation - http://www.greentagsusa.org/greentags/calculator/

Carbon Offsets

purchase carbon offsets for car, home, flights, even your wedding. ($$$ will go towards carbon offset projects TerraPass funds clean energy and carbon reduction projects across the United States, such wind farms and landfill gas capture projects; “what’s my carbon footprint” calculator , interesting articles, blog - www.terrapass.com

How do carbon offsets work? - http://www.terrapass.com/about/how-carbon-offsets-work.html

Carbon Fund - http://www.carbonfund.org/

Energy Education

Cape and Islands Renewable Energy has published a renewable energy information clearing house. A beautiful website that has boatloads of information on the “energy present”, “tools for managing the transition” and “energy future” too much to list…check it out! - http://www.cirenew.info/

Energy Incentives and Tax Credits

New Hampshire Electric Co-Op – energy efficiency programs for individuals and businesses - www.nhec.com

Federal tax credits – everything you ever wanted to know (and more!) http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_tax_credits

DSIRE – Stay up on the latest information about renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives (federal and state) http://www.dsireusa.org/newupdated/index.cfm?CurrentPageID=3&EE=1&RE=1

Green Building

U.S Green building Council – info on LEED, links to green building research, training opportunities for builders - http://www.usgbc.org/

Yestermorrow Design/Build School Warren, VT – courses in sustainable building, summer internship opportunities - http://www.yestermorrow.org/

Local Food

Local Foods Plymouth - www.lfp.dacres.org

Kitchen Gardners International – “promoting the ‘localest’ food of all, globally” - www.kitchengardners.org

Local food directories - http://ww2.attra.ncat.org/index.php/localfood_results.php?Class=NH

Upper Valley Localvores – the 100 mile diet in the Upper Valley (great recipes grouped by season) http://www.uvlocalvore.com/

Other organizations

Squam Lakes Conservation Society - www.squamlakes.org

New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association - http://www.nhsea.org/

The Relocalization Network- www.relocalize.net

Sustainable Energy Resource Group (SERG), Thetford Center, VT - www.serg-info.org

D Acres, Dorchester, NH - www.dacres.org

Lakes Region Living Lightly Association (LARELLA) – www.larella.org

Peak Oil

Comments on "The Party's Over" Written by Richard Heinberg*

Summary of Ricahrd Heinbergs book "Power Down"*

Site describinbg Hubbert's Peak

Web site for the Association for the study of peak oil

Peak primer and more - Great resource

Peak Oil Chat & News - Recommended by a member

Oil Depletion Analysis Centre - Current Articles on Peak Oil (What is in the Press)

Products & Services

Noli Control Systems “energy saving light bulb technology” - light bulbs of every shape and size - www.nolico.com

Insulating blinds and window quilts:

www.windowquilt.com

www.justblinds.com

www.comfortex.com

Brighter Home Life, Northfield, NH – certified installation consultant for solatubes and solarsheets (***discount for PAREI members***) - www.brighterhomelife.com

Rand’s Hardware, Plymouth, NH (***discount for PAREI members***) www.rands.doitbest.com

Building Energy Technology, Concord, NH (***discounts for PAREI members***) www.buildingenergytechnologies.com

Renewable Energy Publications

Homepower Magazine - www.homepower.com

Mother Earth News - www.motherearthnews.com

Countryside & Small Stock Journal, the magazine of modern homesteading www.countrysidemag.com

Interstate Renewable Energy Council (great trade based newsletter)- http://www.irecusa.org/

Post Carbon Institute – free newsletter provides helpful information about how we can relocalize our communities and adapt to an energy constrained world http://www.postcarbon.org/publications/newsletters