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Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative: Transition to Economic Energy Independence

 

Welcome to the March to Montpelier Inter-Scholastic Biomass Collaboration Site

 

 

when and where is the next meeting?, 2008

TBA

 

All are welcome! If you want to be a part of the fun, the weekly meeting is the place to start!

 

 

 

 

This site is for all of us students (and teachers) to collaborate on the Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative demanding economic energy independence.

 

Carbon Offset Stuff:

list of businesses we should contact

letter to businesses

letter to individuals

fairs, festivals, markets we should visit

 

 

NEGEF Grant

 

April 9th: the Post Carbon Sustainability Potluck

 

VSHI Document

 

 

Pilot Project 1: Pellet Stoves for LIHEAP recipients

 

Pilot Project 2: Local Crops Pelletized in Vermont

 

Outreach Event at UVM

 

MAINE presentation

 

Old Links (I made the links which are still active bigger, feel free to do the same if you're updating a different page):

1) The Template

2) Political Presentation Guidelines

3) What We're Proposing

4)A List of Information

5) Committee Presentations

If you are collaborating with people from other schools, here is where you can post and edit powerpoints. Please save your work on your own computer as well as here so that there are multiple copies.

6) Questions We Still Have

7) Impact on VT Economy

8) Website with petition/Original research presentations

• (we now have a legit website)

 

9) Meeting Notes

 

 

10) Posters

These can be used for advertising our cause. If you want the original GIMP files (.xcf), or a photoshop file (.psd) of them for editing purposes, post a comment asking for them, or if you have an idea for a new one.

11) Email Bomb

Send a letter to the whole Natural Resource & Energy Committee with the click of a button

12) Sources

13) HR759

14) Powerpoint 1

15) Powerpoint 2

16) Updates from Lucia

17) Renewable Energy Grants

18) Co-Authored Paper

 

 

 

19) Dinner with the Governor **(LAST CALL ON THE LETTER!)

Agenda (open for input), location, time (when we know it)

20) FLYER! (you'll want to click on this)

 

• This is a link to a site on dartmouth biomass research. We must talk with them.

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/rbaef/

 

 

What we're about:

 

This is a Rallying Cry for Vermont high schoolers to unite and March on Montpelier next month and demand a Carbon Neutral Future for Vermont!

 

Vermont has the capability to grow all of its fuel for home heating and some commercial heating. We need to switch to local resources as oil prices go up and oil reserves deplete. Vermonters are paying between $3 and $4 dollars a gallon for fuel, and more and more Vermonters are struggling to make ends meet and pay their bills to keep their heat on during our frosty winter this year.

 

If Vermont farmers grew our fuel for heating this could have a multi-billion dollar affect on the VT economy!

 

By growing our own fuel, we don't mean corn or even wood. We mean prairie grasses such as Switchgrass & Giant Miscanthus. Japanese Knotweed and Jerusalem Artichoke also yield a lot of energy for their size and already grow wild in Vermont.

 

 

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