SG2020 founding member Bruce Dorries, who writes a regular column on the environment in the Staunton News-Leader, devoted his latest commentary to our plan to help Staunton get 20% of its energy from clean, local sources by 2020. (more…)
Builders, consumers and organizations that want to help Virginia meet the state’s goals for energy sustainability and economic development found in Governor Tim Kaine’s Renew Virginia initiative can start by looking to the Virginia Sustainable Building Network (VSBN.)
The VSBN, started in 1995, offers a compendium of resources on Virginia-based and near-regional vendors of green building supplies and services as well as other news and resources to inspire and inform.
Sometimes online advocacy is such an inspired execution of such a perfectly bad idea that it becomes its own satire.
If you found a website showing little lumps of coal as cute as the kids in South Park singing songs about clean coal technology to the tunes of Christmas Carols you might think they came from the MacBook of some wickedly wry anti-coal activist.
But oh, my friend, you would be wrong. Very wrong.
Before a crowd of energy industry executives and environmental activists at the Richmond Convention Center, this afternoon Governor Tim Kaine announced a new initiative called Renew Virginia to bring green investments into the Commonwealth and create markets for green businesses already here. (more…)
Our own Staunton News Leader ran a great editorial last week about the Governor’s emerging climate plan. “Kaine’s Commission on Climate Change is rightfully recommending that the Commonwealth cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050,” says the editorial. (more…)
Show me the money! Maybe you you’ve loved or hated this phrase ever since Cuba Gooding, Jr., said it in the film Jerry Maguire.
But city governments everywhere, often the first question about making public buildings more energy efficient or, going the step beyond, and installing equipment like solar panels or micro wind turbines to generate their own clean energy is “how are we going to pay for this?” (more…)
Wherever you stand on the Santa Claus issue this holiday season — whether you blame ol’ St. Nick or dear ol’ dad for that lump of coal in your stocking — when it comes to clean coal, in reality, there’s no such thing. (more…)
To create new high-paying jobs while preparing our city for a world of volatile and rising energy costs, the Staunton Green 2020 coalition supports developing a “green plan” for our city.
The plan would chart a course for Staunton to: 1) save energy and 2) locally produce its own clean, renewable energy.
Building the plan would be the work of citizens, businesses, and government through a year or more of dialogue and input under a task force to be appointed by the City. For us, “green” is about prosperity and a high quality of life through the new clean economy. A brief outline of what a green plan could look like follows. (more…)