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Friday, May 20, 2005
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USDA Rural Development has grant funding for renewable energy systems that make energy improvements for agricultural producers and rural small businesses. The grant award range is from $2,500.00 to $250,000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500,000 for renewable energy systems. In order to be eligible for grant funds, the agricultural producer or rural small business must demonstrate financial need and submit a grant request not exceeding 25% of the eligible project costs. Applications are due by June 27. For more information go to www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA. Upcoming workshops are available at www.FarmEnergy.org.
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The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation’s grant program to support installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has been under review since the latter half of 2004. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees recently approved the following program changes:
1. New School Program to be Launched: The Foundation will initiate a new demonstration-scale (~1kW) PV installation program for K-12 schools and other local government and nonprofit children’s educational facilities, such as museums and nature centers. The program details will be finalized in the coming months and
announced in fall 2005, in advance of an early 2006 grant application deadline.
2. Small-Scale Program Ended: The Foundation has ended the program through which it formerly accepted requests on a “rolling review” basis throughout the year to support installation of small-scale PV systems (up to 50kW) on any local government or nonprofit facility in Illinois with grants of $2000/kW of system capacity.
3. Competitive Grant Opportunities Continue: Through its semi-annual competitive grant cycles, the Foundation will continue to accept grant requests for projects that advance use of solar PV technology in green buildings. The Foundation will give preference to (a) building integrated PV systems, and/or (b) PV installations in which the PV system will contribute to the attainment of LEED Silver or higher rating. Systems must (i) supply at least 25% of building load during peak periods, (ii) be sized to meet specific, appropriate building loads, and/or (iii) have sufficient capacity to earn points toward a LEED rating for the building. Grant amounts will be considered on a case-by-case basis taking into account costeffectiveness of the project, project innovation, simple project payback, other sources and amounts of funding, and owner contribution.
Contact Information:
Please contact Foundation Program Officer Bob Romo with questions. He can be reached at 312-372-5191 or by e-mail at bromo@illinoiscleanenergy.org.
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A coalition of 11 states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a new federal rule that allows coal-fired power plants to buy pollution credits to avoid lowering their mercury emissions. [Source: New York Times -- need login/pw?]
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As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide. [Source: Grist Magazine]
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This week in Sustainable Economy, we showed you some examples of the increasingly common practice of companies to voluntarily report for public consumption their environmental compliance practices. No longer something companies do grudgingly and merely to be in compliance with government regulation, today's companies often will tout green practices, and use them as marketing points. [ENN Business Headlines]
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Via sustainablog:
I simply can't think of a better way to get a whole lot of Americans thinking about renewable energy for their home than incorporating it into a reality show. That's right: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is going green for its season finale. The two-hour show will highlight a unique renewable energy system, the first of its kind in Arizona. By noemail@noemail.org (Jeff McIntire-Strasburg). [ sustainablog]
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Stephen L. Johnson said that he was satisfied with President Bush's budget for the agency even though it represented a 5 percent decrease from the current fiscal year. By By MICHAEL JANOFSKY. [NYT > Science]
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The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is requesting papers to be presented at the Sustainable Engineering Forum at the AIChE Annual Meeting scheduled for October 30 - November 4, 2005 at the Cincinnati Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Sustainable Engineering Forum is one of many Topical Conferences being held during the meeting.
Evaluating the sustainability of processes, products and their interactions through the economy presents challenges to practitioners of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Industrial Ecology (IE). These challenges arise from the normally large scale of these problems and the need for defining the meaning of “sustainable”. Papers of special interest in this session include, but are not limited to, those which make LCA and IE efficient. Those papers which provide quantitative metrics for sustainability in these analyses are especially welcome.
Deadline to submit proposals is 12:01 AM EST on May 25, 2005. For more information, and to submit an abstract, visit AIChE's Annual Conference page. Click "23 Sustainable Engineering Forum" and select "23008 Industrial Ecology, LCA, and Sustainability". [ChemAlliance Environmental News]
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2005
Laura L. Barnes.
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10/25/2005; 12:10:40 PM.
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