Juneau middle schoolers will be participating in the Power Pledge Challenge during October Energy Awareness Month. Juneau students will be learning about energy efficiency and competing for prizes this month, with help from AEL&P’s Alec Mesdag, and REAP’s Clay Good. Students will take what they’ve learn from this exciting learning opportunity and conduct an online…
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Are Carbon Offsets the Wedding Registry Gift of the Future?
Fun and funny, this story, part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 220 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story is also quite informative. If nothing else, it shows us how carbon offsetting is moving beyond the corporate sphere and into the day to day of many of us…
First gas station to ditch oil for electric vehicle charging now open!
For the first time, a gas station has converted its business model to 100% electric vehicle charging. The Takoma Park, Maryland, gas station conversion was funded by the Electric Vehicle Institute and Maryland government. Source: First gas station to ditch oil for electric vehicle charging now open
IN THE NEWS: Juneau Carbon Offset Fund
Travel Weekly: In Juneau…New Carbon Offset Options for Travelers Travel Weekly, a national newspaper for the travel industry geared toward travel agents, has been educating and informing travel and tour professionals across the nation since 1958. Travel Weekly correspondent Renee Brincks published her story today detailing Renewable Juneau’s Carbon Offset Fund. Brincks does a splendid…
APPLICATION PROCESS OPEN!
For those households that meet eligibility criteria, the application process for the Juneau Carbon Offset Fund’s free heat pumps is now open! Over the last three months, the Fund has sold enough carbon offsets to finance the installation of at least two air source heat pumps in lower-income Juneau homes! Each heat pump will replace…
The EV ROUNDUP and the Complete Electric Car Buying Guide
Interested in buying an electric car? This great article rounds up all of the new EVs on sale in the United States today! And, speaking of EVs, Juneau Electric Car roundup is happening this coming Saturday, September 21! Check out the National Drive Electric site here and register your car! The fun “EV Roundup” runs…
2019 Election Survey
Following on the positive public feedback that we received from our last local candidate survey, Renewable Juneau recently presented a series of energy and sustainability questions to this fall’s slate of assembly candidates. All answers are available in this downloadable PDF file. If for some reason this file does not work for you, send an…
Carbon Offset Support!
The Leighty Foundation has become the latest Supporting Partner of the Juneau Carbon Offset Fund! With support from the Leighty Foundation, the Fund will realize its first year goal of two lower-income family oil to heat pump conversions this fall! From Nancy Waterman, Secretary & Managing Director and Bill Leighty, President-Elect, “The Leighty Foundation supports…
What You Can Do!
It has become common knowledge that the planet is facing a climate crisis. This is a time when all aboard our little planet need access to as many action tools as possible. Juneau is an action town, as are many of our great communities across the nation. We like to get things done, to take…
Four automakers bucked Trump policy on emissions. Now they are under antitrust investigation – CNN
Kudos to Ford, Honda, BMW and VW for standing up for what is right, as well as what is cost effective. Its refreshing to know that many big businesses are standing up to Trump’s highway to climate hell. The Justice Department has started an antitrust investigation against the four major automakers who have agreed to…