Lisa Daniels, Windustry's Executive Director, spoke at the evening plenary session of the SRI Conference at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, October 29. This was the 24th annual SRI Conference, the Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing. Lisa's session was entitled "Redesigning Capitalism: Transformative Ownership that Works".
Here's a link to a report on some Bloomberg research (14 Oct. 2013) indicating continued decline in worldwide and U.S. investment in clean energy. Here is the main Bloomberg summary.
This blog from a Bloomberg writer shows dramatically how wind lowers electric rates for consumers, and threatens the coal and nuclear industries. We can't help but note that the writer fails to mention that coal and nuclear energy are subsidized to a much greater extent than is wind.
Special thanks to our volunteers who helped out so much at this year's exhibit.
Extra special recognition goes to volunteers extraordinare Paul Dinyer and Todd Triebold. Paul and Todd have volunteered with us at the fair every year for at least the last 4 years, and have gone well above and beyond in helping us out each year. Besides staffing the exhibit Paul helped us move in and move out. And Todd worked an amazing 7 shifts. So, extra special thanks to you guys. You ROCK!
Some notable achievements:
The Wind Program recently (Aug. 2013) released its first annual distributed wind technology market report. According to the report:
In May of 2013 Minnesota's net metering policy was updated to allow for a higher limit on the size of projects eligible for net metering. You can find a more detailed version of the policy here, but we've compiled the most important bits of information in this infographic for your visual and educational pleasure.
Admission to the MN State Fair on the day you volunteer: Free
Wind Energy Center tshirt: Free
Educating thousands of fairgoers about wind energy: Priceless
The volunteer form to help Windustry at the Eco Experience at the 2013 Minnesota State Fair is now live! Click here to sign up and be part of an exciting opportunity to advocate for clean, renewable wind energy.
Windustry is proud to be one of the many fantastic co-sponsors of the Minneapolis Clean Energy Forum, hosted by the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society. Join us tomorrow, June 25, to hear candidates for Mayor of Minneapolis answer questions about clean energy in Minnesota. Don Shelby, former journalist and reporter for WCCO, will moderate the forum.
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time: 6:30 to 8:30pm
Place: Washburn High School
RSVP/get more information: Facebook / Twitter
Congratulations to Heather Rhoads-Weaver, recipient of the Service in Community Wind Award, and to John Pimentel, recipient of the Community Wind Innovator Award!
