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 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
Comments on "The Party's Over" Written by Richard Heinberg*Summary of Ricahrd Heinbergs book "Power Down"*Site describinbg Hubbert's PeakWeb site for the Association for the study of peak oilPeak primer and more - Great resourcePeak Oil Chat & News - Recommended by a member Oil Depletion Analysis Centre - Current Articles on Peak Oil (What is in the Press)
Noli Control
Systems “energy saving light bulb technology”
- light bulbs of every shape and size - www.nolico.com
Insulating blinds
and window quilts:
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
Apricus solar hot water systems (***order through PAREI for your member discount***) www.apricus.com
Earth Solar Go Solar4lots - Member usedThermomaxBig Frog Mountain CorpSilocon Solar - Member usedThe Alternate Energy Hobby StoreColorado Solar ElectricJATS Alternative Power Company
Blue link solar –
solar electric panels - www.bluelinksolar.com
Sunweaver,
Northwood, NH - www.sunweaver.org
Solar Works, Inc – www.solar-works.com
Gro Solar - https://www.globalresourceoptions.com/
KW Management
- great for Geothermal
Building Energy Technology – www.buildingenergytechnologies.com
BTD Mechanical
Contracting, Plumbing & Heating - http://www.btdmechanical.com/
Bridgewater Power
Company - http://www.bridgewaterpower.com/
Brighter Home Life
– www.brighterhomelife.com
Woodsville
Guarantee Savings Bank - http://www.theguarantybank.com/
New Hampshire
Electric Coop – www.nhec.com
Holderness School –
www.holderness.org
Plymouth State
University – www.plymouth.edu
New Hampton School
– www.newhampton.org
EVP Marketing &
Media – www.evpcreative.com
D Acres, Dorchester, NH - www.dacres.org
Roper Real Estate – www.roperre.com
Rockywold-Deephaven Camps – www.rdcsquam.com
Rand’s Hardware – www.rands.doitbest.com
The Jordan Institute – www.thejordaninstitute.org
Windy Ridge
Corp. http://oikos.com/green_products/company.php?company_id=2511
KTM Auto – www.ktmauto.com
Sant Bani School - http://www.santbanischool.org/
Squam Lakes Natural
Science Center - http://www.nhnature.org/
The Common Man – www.thecman.com
Mauchly Electric
R B Eaton & Co
Builders
Baker Valley Motors
- http://www.bakervalleymotors.com/
Puglisi Builders
Solar Works Inc. – www.solar-works.com
Wind Works Llc - http://www.windworksllc.com/
Ted Hammond
Construction, Llc
Scolly Design