Sen.
Bernie Sanders and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency say the
Vermont National Guard is a national model for what other military bases can do
to cut their reliance on fossil fuel and become less dependent on foreign oil.
After town representatives met with state environmental officials, Eden select board members say solar
could make sense at the site of the town’s abandoned asbestos mine.
Many
more houses in Addison County are getting water that’s been heated by the sun. Since
the inception of a new program this fall, 95 houses have installed solar hot
water heating systems. And that’s been good news for one local business.
Smugglers Notch Resort in Jeffersonville has a new sustainable energy project on the horizon. The ski resort hopes to build about two acres of solar
trackers at a new ‘solar farm’.
Protesters turned out on the Statehouse lawn on Wednesday to oppose
a wind energy project in Lowell
and others planned around the state.
The
critics of large-scale wind say solar power is the better way to meet Vermont’s energy needs.