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Archive for April, 2009

Energy and Climate Fair – This Saturday, May 2nd!

The big day is almost here – please come down and show your support and bring a friend or two as well. We’re hoping for a good turnout!
The event will take place at the York Middle School on Organug Road from 8:30am to 12:30, May 2, 2009.
If you are able to volunteer to help [...]

Happy Earth Day

“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to [...]

Local food is sustainable

By purchasing locally grown food, you’ll help save energy—and fossil fuels—because you’ll reduce the cost of transporting your food from one end of the country, or globe, to the other. Studies have shown that in the U.S., the average grocery store’s produce travels nearly 1,500 miles between the farm where it was grown and your refrigerator. [...]

April 14 committee meeting

The next monthly meeting of the York Energy Efficiency Committee is scheduled for 7:00 pm on Tuesday, April 14 at the York Public Library. All are welcome. Eric will distribute the agenda prior to the meeting.
In the meantime, you can read the minutes of the March meeting.
And whether or not you plan to attend a [...]

10 Green Ways To Cut Business Costs

In this article, the author describes ways for businesses to save money as well as the environment, even in difficult economic times. For example, one suggestion involved “greening” your transportation:
The kind of transportation you use and the number of miles your employees or goods travel per year will have a tremendous impact on your bottom [...]

York Energy and Climate Fair – New Flier

Designed by Joanne Muckenhoupt

Our New Logo!

Pretty cool!

Designed by the very capable,Karen O’Brien-Hay at TIMESFOUR Graphic Design.  Her contact info is below

Karen O’Brien-Hay
TIMESFOUR
graphic design
207• 841• 9033
207• 363• 0049
timesfour@maine.rr.com

The Price Is Not Right

Columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman makes an compelling connection between our failure to rein in global warming and our failure to prevent the recent financial crash. An excerpt:
[It’s] now obvious that the reason we’re experiencing a simultaneous meltdown in the financial system and the climate system is because we have been mispricing [...]

2009 Compost Bin Sale

YEEC member Heather Henriksen is again selling home compost bins for Earth Day.
This year’s sale will be done as a fundraiser for White Pine Programs.  I am excited to have teamed up with Amy Beal and White Pine Programs, a nature-based learning program in Cape Neddick. $5.00 from the cost of each bin will go [...]

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