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Archive for August, 2009

There are alternatives to oil, but not to food

The impacts of climate change and increasingly scarce and expensive fossil fuels will have drastic implications for our whole food chain. It is becoming clear that an industrial system of agriculture fueled by cheap oil and vast amounts of petrochemicals is not sustainable.
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains [...]

August 11 committee meeting

Our August meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday at 7pm at the York Library. We will have a special guest – Dimitri Cherny, from a Newmarket-based company called Highest Wind. They are looking to beta-test a project in York or Ogunquit. Instead of using windmills to create electricity, his company produces an [...]

Taking back the night

A Native American community in western North Carolina is replacing their streetlights with LED models.
The community of Cherokee, North Carolina is reported to be -
working with Philips Lumec to light its downtown streets with the company’s LifeLED energy efficient street lighting. The press release from Philips Lumec claims that the project, which is replacing a lighting [...]

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