Experience, Learn, Discover - Attend the Small & Community Wind Conference & Exhibition

American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) wrote:

AWEA Small and Community Wind Conference & Exhibition November 3 – 5, 2009 > Detroit, MI Q. Can you invest in clean wind technology and strengthen your local and national economy? Q. Would you like to reduce our nation's energy consumption and go green? Q. Could your company get involved in this rapidly expanding industry? Q. Do you want to learn more about how wind technology can make you money and save you money? Get the answers to these and other questions by joining project developers, economic development groups, municipalities, land owners, wind energy manufacturers, wind component suppliers, and consumers looking for ways to maximize the value of wind. With an ever growing list of exhibiting companies and an insightful program full of important information presented by industry leaders, the AWEA Small and Community Wind Conference & Exhibition is one event you can not afford to miss. Early Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 13 Be sure to sign-up before the deadline to save on your registration. Register now! Would you like to save even more? Simply recruit other attendees and we'll thank you by refunding a portion of your registration! Click here for more details. The event features: EXPERIENCE an exhibit hall devoted to community and small/mid-sized wind technology, and national supply chain companies LEARN about how landowners, ranchers and municipalities can join together to create wind opportunities DISCOVER the wind industry supply chain, market growth, and strategies for getting into the industry ATTEND conference sessions on how to choose small wind system for a home or business For more information visit: www.smallandcommunitywindexpo.org A special thanks to the Small and Community Wind Conference Program and Session Chairs for their support in developing the conference program: Program Chairs: Jacob Susman, Chief Executive Officer, OwnEnergy, Inc Charles Newcomb, Chief Technology Officer, NexGen Energy Partners, LLC Session Chairs: Andrew Carstensen, Managing Director, Nord LB New York Cindy Crooks, Director of Development, OwnEnergy, Inc. Lisa Daniels, Executive Director, Windustry David Drescher, Vice President, Wind Energy, John Deere Renewables, LLC Larwrence Flowers, Principal Project Leader, NREL Trudy Forsyth, Small Wind Turbine Project Leader,NREL Mike Hess, President & CEO, Mariah Power Brad Lystra, Manager, Economic Development Partnerships, AWEA Christopher McKay, Product Manager - Wind & Power Electronics, Northern Power Larry Sherwood, Executive Director, Small Wind Certification Council, Sherwood Associates Brent Summerville, Technical Director, Small Wind Certification Council Greg Price, Executive Director of Sales & Marketing, Abundant Renewable Energy Jim Walker, Vice Chairman, enXco Daniel Yarano, Attorney, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. Visit the event website for a detailed agenda.    Register Now Program Agenda Exhibition Hotel & Travel Become an AWEA Member Contact Us  Join Our Mailing List  The Co-Located Supply Chain Workshop Held with the Small and Community Wind Conference, this workshop allows attendees to learn about specific supply chain issues impacting the potential growth of the wind industry. Click here to learn more. Important Dates: Early Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 13 Hotel Reservation Deadline: Tuesday, October 20 AWEA Fall 2009 Events: Wind Power Finance & Investment Workshop  Oct. 13 – 14 > New York, NY Supply Chain Workshop Nov. 3 – 5 > Detroit, MI Wind Energy Fall Symposium Nov. 18 – 20 > Orlando, FL Offshore Wind Project Workshop Dec. 2 – 3 > Boston, MA Visit www.awea.org/events for initial details on our spring 2010 events. Why Attend AWEA Events? As the national trade association for the wind industry, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) strives to create and deliver educational events that capture the energy of the rapidly expanding wind market and offer necessary opportunities for organizations to learn and network with fellow wind professionals. The revenue generated from AWEA events is used to advance the wind industry through policy analysis and promotion, to ensure wind industry interests are addressed in renewable energy legislation, and to communicate the benefits of wind energy to all. ONLY AWEA puts your dollars to work advancing the wind energy industry. AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION 1501 M Street NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202.383.2512 / Fax: 202.293.2567 / Email: conference@awea.org / Web: www.awea.org/events Note: this email message is distributed by the American Wind Energy Association. If you have received this message in error, or if you do not wish to receive future mailings from this organization, please respond to be removed.

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Green is not just a color. It's our promise

Interstate Renewable Energy Council wrote:

For over 25 years, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has worked behind the scenes tackling market, regulatory and cultural barriers which have hindered wider acceptance and use of renewable energy resources.   Finally, there's a sea change.   Renewable energy is taking front and center stage as part of the solution to many of our environmental, energy, and economic challenges. Three cheers. Actually, we've been at it so long, let's say three cheers and three cheers more.    But, we're not resting on our laurels. Hardly. In fact, today our work requires greater diligence and attentiveness. The meteoric rise of green can lead to the misuse and mismatch of practices, products, and services. You know our work. You read our newsletters; attend our events; use our reports and best practices. IREC keeps the important issues on our radar screen.   This year alone, IREC has participated in rulemakings and hearings in over a dozen states. But we need to keep pace with important new regulatory rulemaking and emerging policy issues. IREC is increasingly called upon to address issues that arise and while we are responsive, resource limitations frequently prevent us from taking an active role.     In just the past six months, IREC has awarded 13 training programs and trainers credentials assuring that instruction has met high international standards for content, facilities, resources, and safety. But with new training programs hitting the market every day, it becomes even more important that the right skill sets are being taught and that students have a realistic understanding of the kinds of jobs for which they are being prepared. IREC's quality review and auditing assessment credentialing programs are more critical than ever with the growing green workforce. Would you help us now ratchet up our efforts to make sure that green is not just a color but a practice? A small donation will make a big difference. That's OUR promise to you. Please give us a hand and make a tax deductible contribution and support IREC's important work.     IREC is a nonprofit organization, incorporated in 1982. For a full review of our programs and projects, please visit www.irecusa.org.

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Please Write to EPA: Protect Communities from Coal Ash Spills

View this action alert on the Ecology Center Website.

Protect Communities from Coal Ash Spills

Dear Daniel,

According to a federal survey released this past August, toxic waste from coal burning are sitting in over 580 locations in 35 states (see map) -- including Michigan. U.S. coal-fired power plants generate over 130 million tons of toxic coal ash annually, and yet there are no specific federal regulations governing its disposal. These sites pose serious risks to nearby communities and waterways. We encourage you to send a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, asking for tough regulation of coal ash disposal sites.

Please don't let the images from this video show up on your local news. Take action today. The way the U.S. EPA chooses to regulate the waste ("hazardous" or "non-hazardous") will determine whether the promised regulations offer communities sufficient protection or whether the status quo of patchwork state rules and inadequate standards will remain.

Sincerely,

Monica Patel
Clean Energy Advocate
Ecology Center

The Ecology Center works for a safe and healthy environment where people live, work, and play.

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Earth Policy News -- Our Global Ponzi Economy

Earth Policy Institute Plan B 4.0 Book Byte October 7, 2009  OUR GLOBAL PONZI ECONOMY  http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/book_bytes/2009/pb4ch01_ss4  Lester R. Brown  Our mismanaged world economy today has many of the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme takes payments from a broad base of investors and uses these to pay off returns. It creates the illusion that it is providing a highly attractive rate of return on investment as a result of savvy investment decisions when in fact these irresistibly high earnings are in part the result of consuming the asset base itself. A Ponzi scheme investment fund can last only as long as the flow of new investments is sufficient to sustain the high rates of return paid out to previous investors. When this is no longer possible, the scheme collapses—just as Bernard Madoff’s $65-billion investment fund did in December 2008.  Although the functioning of the global economy and a Ponzi investment scheme are not entirely analogous, there are some disturbing parallels. As recently as 1950 or so, the world economy was living more or less within its means, consuming only the sustainable yield, the interest of the natural systems that support it. But then as the economy doubled, and doubled again, and yet again, multiplying eightfold, it began to outrun sustainable yields and to consume the asset base itself.   In a 2002 study published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists concluded that humanity’s collective demands first surpassed the earth’s regenerative capacity around 1980. As of 2009 global demands on natural systems exceed their sustainable yield capacity by nearly 30 percent. This means we are meeting current demands in part by consuming the earth’s natural assets, setting the stage for an eventual Ponzi-type collapse when these assets are depleted.  As of mid-2009, nearly all the world’s major aquifers were being overpumped. We have more irrigation water than before the overpumping began, in true Ponzi fashion. We get the feeling that we’re doing very well in agriculture—-but the reality is that an estimated 400 million people are today being fed by overpumping, a process that is by definition short-term. With aquifers being depleted, this water-based food bubble is about to burst.  A similar situation exists with the melting of mountain glaciers. When glaciers first start to melt, flows in the rivers and the irrigation canals they feed are larger than before the melting started. But after a point, as smaller glaciers disappear and larger ones shrink, the amount of ice melt declines and the river flow diminishes. Thus we have two water-based Ponzi schemes running in parallel in agriculture.   And there are more such schemes. As human and livestock populations grow more or less apace, the rising demand for forage eventually exceeds the sustainable yield of grasslands. As a result, the grass deteriorates, leaving the land bare, allowing it to turn to desert. In this Ponzi scheme, herders are forced to rely on food aid or they migrate to cities.  Three fourths of oceanic fisheries are now being fished at or beyond capacity or are recovering from overexploitation. If we continue with business as usual, many of these fisheries will collapse. Overfishing, simply defined, means we are taking fish from the oceans faster than they can reproduce. The cod fishery off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada is a prime example of what can happen. Long one of the world’s most productive fisheries, it collapsed in the early 1990s and may never recover.  Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, puts it well: “At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation.” The larger question is, If we continue with business as usual—with overpumping, overgrazing, overplowing, overfishing, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide—how long will it be before the Ponzi economy unravels and collapses? No one knows. Our industrial civilization has not been here before.   Unlike Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, which was set up with the knowledge that it would eventually fall apart, our global Ponzi economy was not intended to collapse. It is on a collision path because of market forces, perverse incentives, and poorly chosen measures of progress.   In addition to consuming our asset base, we have devised some clever techniques for leaving costs off the books—much like the disgraced and bankrupt Texas-based energy company Enron did some years ago. For example, when we use electricity from a coal-fired power plant we get a monthly bill from the local utility. It includes the cost of mining coal, transporting it to the power plant, burning it, generating the electricity, and delivering electricity to our homes. It does not, however, include any costs of the climate change caused by burning coal. That bill will come later—and it will likely be delivered to our children. Unfortunately for them, their bill for our coal use will be even larger than ours.  When Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist at the World Bank, released his groundbreaking 2006 study on the future costs of climate change, he talked about a massive market failure. He was referring to the failure of the market to incorporate the costs of climate change in the price of fossil fuels. According to Stern, the costs are measured in the trillions of dollars. The difference between the market prices for fossil fuels and an honest price that also incorporates their environmental costs to society is huge.  As economic decisionmakers we all depend on the market for information to guide us, but the market is giving us incomplete information, and as a result we are making bad decisions. One of the best examples of this can be seen in the United States, where the gasoline pump price was around $3 per gallon in mid-2009. This reflects only the cost of finding the oil, pumping it to the surface, refining it into gasoline, and delivering the gas to service stations. It overlooks the costs of climate change as well as the costs of tax subsidies to the oil industry, the burgeoning military costs of protecting access to oil in the politically unstable Middle East, and the health care costs of treating respiratory illnesses caused by breathing polluted air. These indirect costs now total some $12 per gallon. In reality, burning gasoline is very costly, but the market tells us it is cheap.  The market also does not respect the carrying capacity of natural systems. For example, if a fishery is being continuously overfished, the catch eventually will begin to shrink and prices will rise, encouraging even more investment in fishing trawlers. The inevitable result is a precipitous decline in the catch and the collapse of the fishery.   Today we need a realistic view about the relationship between the economy and the environment. We also need, more than ever before, political leaders who can see the big picture. And since the principal advisors to government are economists, we need either economists who can think like ecologists or more ecological advisors. Otherwise, market behavior—-including its failure to include the indirect costs of goods and services, to value nature’s services, and to respect sustainable-yield thresholds—-will cause the destruction of the economy’s natural support systems, and our global Ponzi scheme will fall apart.   #     #     #  Adapted from Chapter 1, “Selling Our Future,” in Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), available on-line at www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/books/pb4  Media & Permissions to Reprint Contact: Reah Janise Kauffman  Tel: (202) 496-9290 x 12 E-mail: rjk (at) earthpolicy.org  Research Contact:  Janet  Larsen Tel: (202) 496-9290 x 14 E-mail: jlarsen (at) earthpolicy.org  Earth Policy Institute 			  1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 403				 Washington, DC  20036				  Web: www.earthpolicy.org  ---   

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Newsweek Sailing the Seas of Green Newsweek Also on display in Monaco was the prototype for a futuristic-looking superyacht that relies solely on solar energy and wind power. The 59-meter Soliloquy, ... See all stories on this topic

San Antonio is developing sustainable-energy plan for future Bizjournals.com This will mean more of an investment in renewable energy; the development of buildings that generate their own power; hydrogen storage of renewable energy; ... See all stories on this topic

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On Energy, We're Finally Walking the Walk By Lester R. Brown REVE - Regulación Eólica con Vehículos Eléctricos Altogether, about 22 coal-fired power plants in 12 states are being replaced by wood-fired power, wind farms or natural gas plants. ... See all stories on this topic

 

Renewable Energy Stocks Directory

Renewable Energy Stocks Directory - How to Find the Next Green ... InvestorIdeas.com (press release) ... Hydrogen Production, Micro Turbine Stocks, Solar Stocks, Green Transportation, Wind Power and Wind Energy Stocks and Green Infrastructure Stocks. ... See all stories on this topic

 

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Can you press 'stratosphere,' please? Excalibur Online The sun and wind are too unstable to be reliable power sources. “On the ground, wind power isn't good. The reason is wind blows too infrequently to power ... See all stories on this topic

 

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Use wind to power up hydrogen economy, urges expert WalesOnline For example, the huge new gas-fired power station approved at Pembroke could in the future be partially fuelled by hydrogen from Wales' wind farms. ... See all stories on this topic

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Nuclear power potential a long way off for oilsands energy needs ... Calgary Herald Nuclear power has also been touted to replace natural gas-fired plants to make hydrogen for oil upgrader plants. The study also noted nuclear power would ... See all stories on this topic

 

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America's Steel Industry: Case Study of Green, Industrial Renaissance PR Newswire (press release) A second project called "Ironmaking by Hydrogen Flash Smelting" now being conducted at the University of Utah, replaced carbon as a blast-furnace fuel with ... See all stories on this topic

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