EFCL GREEN CHALLENGE COMMITTEE extends an invitation!
Exciting Evening in Edmonton: Edmonton’s Amazing Green Projects to Empower your Community
Save this date: March 19, doors open 6:30 pm so please join us at Montrose Hall, 5920 - 119 Avenue, for an action packed information evening. 7:15 to 8:15 are presentations, questions after, and wine and cheese before and after. FREE EVENT Open to the public and league members of course and be green and bring your own cup.
6 presenters giving 20 slides each in 10 minutes for a full hour of the highlights of their projects. We are still finalizing the participant list – check online shortly for completed agenda but subject matter includes the following and it is going to be hard to pick just six!!
- Local Motion – C02RE program in Parkallen produces a reduction rate in car trips beyond expectations!
- Eco Equity – finance your hall / home / business retrofit with a loan and pay for it with your energy savings – programs and grant information for everyone
- Light Pollution – health & wellness and energy reduction programs to improve quality of life in your neighbourhood
- Enviro perfect Solutions - Environmentally sound weed & feed –Make the right choices for your garden, park, and ground maintenance
- Grow Forward Grovenor – Excite, Engage, and Involve all the assets in your neighbourhood, including everyone from businesses to gardeners to artists. Gain new members, and grow a resilient community with a program that is worked in hundreds of neighbourhoods around the world
- Community Gardens & City Farm programs – provide your own local veggies
PAST EVENTS:
Gordon Howell, Solar Energy Expert
- NET ZERO ENERGY PROFILE FOR RIVERDALE HALL
On November 21, we invited our league members and the general public to join us in an informative and entertaining evening at Riverdale Hall which has already undergone retrofits and continues its commitment to lower its carbon footprint.
- CO2RE tantalizes leagues with the $5000 prize to be awarded in April
- Edmonton Solar Energy Society presents
- Gordon Howell presents on the Green Movement, Solar Energy, and the Energy Grid
The Green Challenge hosted an information evening on November 21 at Riverdale Hall. The conversation and idea sharing flowed along with the wine among the 62 attendees, and two more leagues signed up for the challenge now bringing the total of Leagues that have made a commitment to lowering their carbon footprint to 42!
There are some basic changes required to become “solar ready” that can be done at a much lower cost than the solar panel purchase. However, it is Gordon Howell’s prediction that by 2013 the switch to green renewable power will be the unavoidable economical choice; it already is the ethical one.
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Brenda Osborne & Colin Beddoes
from CO2RE
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Gordon Howell says “My best move was to replace my fridge, but if I told you I was going to talk about replacing my fridge tonight, you wouldn’t have come."
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Rob Harlan of the Edmonton Solar Society indicates that Alberta has a Great Solar Resource
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Bullfrog power illuminates the crowd on wind energy.
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Bull Frog Power, CO2RE, and the Edmonton Solar Society were available for one on one questions at booths and our presenters all brought some fresh information and interesting figures that really helped to make sense of rising energy costs and carbon. Please visit the links below. Thanks to our sponsors.
¨ See the CO2RE website for the tips that Brenda Osborne, Director of the CO2RE elucidated.
¨ Robert Harlan of the Edmonton Solar Society Solaralberta.ca had his facts straight about the coal energy we use to power our city. View videos, about existing projects and find your providers for solar heaters and panels.
The interest in this subject area and follow up emails we received indicated that we are primed for a repeat performance in mid - winter. Stay tuned to the EFCL ENews and efcl.org Green Challenge Page for event information. If you would like to participate in the promotion of the Green Movement or if you have a seminar you would like to present at one of the information evenings or sponsor an evening please contact us at communications@efcl.org We will host an organizational meeting in early to mid December so register at the above email with your area of interest.