Sunday, February 1, 2009

A Few Announcements & Resources

From SE CERTS January Meeting:
 NOVA special – “The Big Energy Gamble” – see details and airing times here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/energy/
 Check out OC-Solar’s new website (the Mayo High School solar website) – http://mnsep.org/ - their website is home to a number of good resources, video clips, images, etc.
http://www.streetsblog.org/ - a suggested link from Ray
 We’re getting in project reports from the 2007 CERT funded projects. Susan will be writing up some brief case studies about each project for the SE CERTS website… and the State site will have in-depth case studies by summer.
 103 schools signed up for Minnesota Schools Cutting Carbon! The Southeast region had 10 schools sign up including all three Rochester High Schools, and schools from Winona, Plainview, Austin, Le Crescent, Mankato, Faribault, Byron, Northfield and Pine Island.
 SE CERTS will be supporting the regional Science Fairs again this year to encourage student clean energy projects. Let Susan know ASAP if you’d like to be a judge.
 League of Minnesota Cities has some good resources for local governments interested in saving energy: http://www.lmnc.org/page/1/sustainability-issue.jsp.

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