Tag: Energy

  • Celebrate Cooperatives this October

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    The Wisconsin Ag Connection encourages Americans to celebrate cooperatives this month: Wisconsin kicks off Cooperative Month in October, there is new evidence that people prefer to do business with cooperatives over investor-owned businesses. That’s according to Cooperative Network, which commissioned a survey through the St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute that shows 47 percent of consumers…

  • Local Cooperatives Purchase Electric Service Territory from Alliant Energy

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    The Lakefield Standard announces 12 local cooperatives have purchased the electric service territory in southern Minnesota from Alliant Energy. SMEC officials on Tuesday announced they have reached a definitive agreement to acquire territory from Alliant Energy. The transaction is contingent upon regulatory approval. Assuming the acquisition is approved by regulators, it is expected to close in 2014. …

  • Organic Farm Poised to Convert Farm Waste to Energy

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    The Advertiser announces that an organic farm intends to produce power for the national grid by using a digester to convert farm waste to energy: Home Farm, at Newby Wiske, which is the northern base for Riverford Organic Farms, has applied to Hambleton District Council to install a sunken and domed 200kW anaerobic digester as part of…

  • Cooperatives Cont’d. – The Emilia Romagna Cooperatives in Italy

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    If you are interested in an alternative econonic model to the traditional corporate capitalism practiced in the US, you’ll find this presentation informative and uplifting.  It highlights the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy which is one of the richest in Europe. Emilia-Romagna is also one of the most cooperative regions in the world. Nearly two out…

  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees

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    The photo above provides a wonderful demonstration of the physics of light in water drops as well as the attraction of water molecules to plant molecules and to one another. In this case, the liquid drops result from rain and fog. A drop of liquid behaves like a simple lens – just like a camera. Therefore, the refracted image is upside-down when viewed through the drop. Somehow, bees,…

  • Bali seeks to improve energy self-sufficiency

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    From the Jakarta Post, Bali seeks to accelerate its energy and agriculture self-sufficiency programs: In line with its mission to be a “clean and green” and “organic” island, Bali should accelerate its energy and agriculture self-sufficiency programs, an NGO has urged. I Gede Suarja, coordinator of the BIRU program with the Yayasan Rumah Energi (YRE)…

  • Tuesday Prayer

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    I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. —Rabindranath Tagore –

  • 19th Century Technology Fuels 21st Century Sustainability Project

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    By: Chris Vedelago It’s a bold 21st century sustainability project that will be fueled, ironically, by 19th century technology. Excess energy from the powerful boilers that run the CUB Brewery in Abbotsford are being retasked to meet the energy needs of a nearby office building, turning it into a hub of environmental sustainability and design. ”We…

  • Inside Climate News Wins Pulitzer Prize

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    This year’s national Pulitzer Prize went to an unlikely recipient: “InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer are the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The trio took top honors in the category for their work on “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” a…