The Center for Energy and Environment will be hosting an exciting webinar tomorrow looking at innovative residential programs that save loads of energy and money. Some friends from across the pond, Yorkshire Energy Services, will be giving a free webinar about a groundbreaking program that currently benefits 84 percent of residents - the program is so awesome it has even been touted by Prince Charles!
Fresh Energy is part of a fun online fundraising tournament called the eBay Fundraising Tournament for the Environment and we need your help (and your vote)!
The gubernatorial race in Minnesota is about to begin, and it's important that the next governor supports efforts that will make Minnesota a leader in the clean energy economy. This Sunday at 1:00PM is your chance to see where the candidates stand on comprehensive climate legislation. The
Living Green Expo will feature a Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Clean Energy, Clean Water and Minnesota's Future. Candidates confirming their attendance are Democrats Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Mark Dayton and Matt Entenza and the Independence Party's Rob Hahn and Tom Horner. Republicans Tom Emmer and Marty Seifert have been invited.
Learn more about the Living Green Expo, and make sure you visit Fresh Energy's booth!
This Thursday, Senator Klobuchar will host an energy efficiency summit at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management (in cooperation with the Humphrey Institute). Read on for more details, an agenda of the summit, and how you can RSVP for the event.
Here at Fresh Energy, we're often writing about the new clean energy economy. But how often do you actually see the thousands of Minnesota union workers in clean energy jobs? Now's your chance. The Blue Green Alliance is organizing the Green Jobs Photo Project, with a gallery opening on Thursday, January 14, 6-8PM at Common Roots Café in Minneapolis, and you're invited!
Last Friday morning, I stepped off the plane in Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15). My role at the Copenhagen climate conference is as a policy mentor and coach to 12 youth delegates from 7 Midwest states. They make up Expedition Copenhagen, traveling with polar explorer and global warming eyewitness Will Steger. I had reviewed all the negotiating positions of individual countries like my own, China, Japan, Canada--and important blocks of countries, the European Union, the Alliance of Small States, the G-77 developing nations. I felt prepared to track the formal negotiations of the conference. What I was unprepared for was the remarkable intensity and focus of the youth delegates I would meet that night.
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Nov 23, 2009
At Fresh Energy's first-ever benefit concert on Friday evening, Krista Detor, David Weber, Arbutus Cunningham, and Alice Hurley enchanted Fresh Energy supporters with a program of song and story that made the rafters ring in Macalester College's Weyerhaeuser Chapel. Detor is an international performer whose original songs have been featured at the Cannes film festival, and on NPR,and PBS. Thanks to her remarkable generosity, 60 percent of ticket sales will go directly to support Fresh Energy's work. Alternately tender, thought provoking, and funny, Detor's program was drawn from material commissioned by the Shrewsbury Folk Festival. As one attendee said, "fantastic is huge understatement."
It seems pretty simple: we should use energy as efficiently as possible. It saves money and avoids negative environmental consequences and costs next to nothing. Why waste electricity to get the same results?
Want to learn how energy efficiency can save money, create jobs, and fight global warming in Minnesota? On November 3, why not see for yourself how a local company has reaped the benefits.
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